The reason I'm doing these trips this month is cause I dont know weather I will have enough time to do much trips the rest of the year starting from when I go on holiday to Spain on the 9th or 10th of June which is in 2 or 3 weeks cause Iv got a holiday for almost every single month after that but also cause my posts are getting pushed down so quickly too being pushed down to page 2 in less than a day and having to keep bumping it up for people to see and being and being more busy I won't have the time to have to keep bumping them back up for people. so any have done this month people can either check out while I'm doing them or look at them while im away.
as for the trip I went to Daniels Brook today. unfortunately I left my battery at home at the weekend so I only have one battery to go by which is very low. I would be surprised if it lasts the week but hopefully it will. I will be getting my spare battery when I go to Hucclecote this weekend. so I had to keep it off and only switch it on when I see something then switch it off as soon as iv taken a picture to make sure it lasts cause it kept flashing red.
I took lots of photos at the stream and I had to keep changing between my short and long lens. usually I only use my long lens for the birds but I used it for the other wildlife too so that I didn't have to go near them and the shorter one for the ones that allow me to approach. I hope you enjoy the photos
I used my long lens at first for the speckled wood. I went onto my short lens later in the trip when it landed closed to my leg
I used my long lens for this tiny Butterfly
I used my short lens for this one and I tried to take a picture of it hovering so I put the focus square on the overfly while it was hovering
another fly
I spotted a Spider on the vegetation
then I noticed all 3 of them but the other two are nursery web spiders
You should not bump posts up - if you start to bump posts up everyone will start to do it. It is just normal at this time of year that posts disappear quickly because of all the Osprey threads, which is one of the reasons RSPB has been asked to look at the structure of the Forums. sadly it is something that we have to live with until it has been reorganised.
Pleas do not start bumping up your threads - why should you consider your threads any more important than any others that slip onto page 2 or 3 quickly?
here's a film of the first spider in the photo trying to catch a fly