As a continuation of yesterday’s identification post, these are some of the insects, birds and funghi I photographed with a view to identifying. Wildlife photography is significantly more challenging than nature photography, so most buzzy, bitey, pretty, “oo, what’s that?” insects and birds have never been photographed (except really crap photos which I look back on and wonder why I took such a bad photo of nothing of note, failing to notice a blob of bird).
Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus) butterflyWow, mushroom and funghi identification isn’t going well. This could be a few things. I didn’t think to smell it to identify it. I’m going with the safe bet of not even suggesting what it could beTBC fledgling stonechatCommon red soldier beetles, also known as the hogweed bonking beetle (some bonking in action, as it happens)There’s a lot growing in this cluster but I think this is British Soldier Lichen (Cladonia cristatella)TBC Great spotted woodpecker (under surveillance by the chaffinches)Fly agaric (a toxix mushroom, though not deadly. Pretty though)
