It's not all about Myrtle...

The first of a few picture-posts about some of the other wildlife that we've seen here....
over the past couple of months...

No, honestly, it isn't that we are preoccupied by moorhen activity....
although Myrtle has taken up quite a lot of our blog space over the past few months.

It is also about seeing...

....a Grizzled Skipper backlit by the morning sun...

 when you had seen it....

....on the same plant the previous evening!!

It's also about seeing...

a Kingfisher through the kitchen window...

and it stayed put until you'd rushed upstairs to get a clearer view...

"This is my left profile....

...and this? My right!!"

It's about being out of an evening and meeting...

...Mrs.Toad going about her business.

or seeing a....

...a Glow-worm halfway up the longère wall....
using the white to double her glow.

Or seeing....

...a male Beautiful Demoiselle delicately perched on a leaf, near Myrtle's platform...
the metallic blue and green sparkling in the sunlight...

or seeing...

... a Leaf Cutter Bee in the act of taking a large chunk out of...
the Cut-leaf Maple that we'd raised from seed!! What a cheek!!!

It's about trying to photograph Orioles....

...as they fly towards the house...
(it is the yellow blob)...

...and actually getting something recognisable...
it is a male... it is black and bright yellow...
hold it... I can see the eyes!!

It is all about SEEING...
seeing the world a hundred different ways....

through a hundred little lenses!!

Hope you enjoyed this...
there will be more!!

Orioles

We had a couple of Orioles in the dead willow on the bank opposite the bedroom the other morning. A juvenile [all greeny with a black eye-mask] which stayed in the top of the willow for a while, and an adult in black and yellow that sat there in full view for about five minutes before going and skulking around in the ash that was next door. It thought it was under cover, but we could both see it quite clearly. Sorry, no photographs. It was just too far away to catch!