A week of fauna on flora around Arbroath

   
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Most of the insects were named by the ObsIdentify app and some checked in my book, some are common and some new for my garden. Also three photos from my Webs count, one of which to me anyway, looks like folly. The photos are in date, then alphabetical order, that's what Google does, many with a 500mm lens, some 70mm and others with my P1000. 

Some of the videos below are handheld for moving subjects, or on a tripod if static, often preening birds. I might film some butterflies if the sun returns and there's no wind.

Roadside Ruff      Gannet fishing Lunan Bay      Mediterranean Gull      Ringed Plovers, East Haven

Knot, Dunlin, Turnstone, Ringed Plover      Arbroath Lifeboats training

My young Blue Tit, it's unphased by my presence in the garden while I photograph insects, as long as I don't move, often less that 2 metres away

Large White

Red Admiral

Red Admiral

Small Tortoiseshell

Turnip Sawfly

Large White

Peacock

Red Admiral

Sparrowhawk, flew just feet over me into a bush full of sparrows, failed, moved to another bush, and only fled when I got very close 

Common Carder Bee

European Potter or Tube Wasp Ancistrocerus gazella

House Sparrow with Ford Focus, racing red background

Large White

Mediterranean Gull

Orange-legged Furrow Bee female

Orange-legged Furrow Bee male

Heath Robinson comes to mind. Note, no apparent lifejacket or buoyancy aid

Turnstones losing their breeding plumage

Common Furrow Bee Lasioglossum catcatum

Green-veined White

Honey Bee

Nebria brevicollis maybe

Plain-faced Dronefly Eristalis arbustorum

Smooth Newt juvenile, only 25-30mm long, at Murton

Olive was being stalked by this Herring Gull while she ate her chips at Arbroath Harbour, here its pecking at the crumbs

Great black-backed Gull, Arbroath Harbour