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Red admiral butterfly
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Ringlet butterfly
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The Cucumber spider is still living in it's daisy. It has a cache of food inside the folded petals and a web that you can just see under the flower. I keep going out to make sure it's still there!!
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Ribbed Pine Borer beetle, spotted at the cottage in Braemar at the weekend. It's not been recorded at this site since 1958!!
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So many ladybirds in the garden at the moment, think they're enjoying the nice weather as am I! 🐞
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Lovely wander through the forest today at Mar Lodge Estate, near Braemar, Aberdeenshire
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There's so much insect life in the fields just now, especially hoverflies! Love the colours in this one
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Loads of ladybirds in the fields at the moment, spent a while this morning taking some photographs 🐞
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You don't realise how beautiful a clover flower is until you see it up close. We've let the lawn fill with clover flowers this summer and the bees and butterflies love it! 💚
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Stonehenge - in amongst the stones just after sunrise, just magical!
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Beautiful alliums around the pond at Houghton Lodge Garden, Hampshire
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The garden at Stourhead, Wiltshire
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Lovely astrantia in the garden and great for bees too!
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Allium's ready to pop!
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Wild garlic in the garden, beautiful flowers
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Steaming muck!
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Beautiful and still morning for sunrise today
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Beach walk
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The boat house, Fyvie loch, Aberdeenshire
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Fyvie Castle and the beautiful autumn colours
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Peacock butterfly enjoying the buddleia
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Tree sparrows, Passer montaus
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Stormy sunset
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Small tortoiseshell butterfly enjoying the teasel in the garden
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The bleeding tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii)
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The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum pecki). Seen in Abernethy forest, Nethybridge.
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Out with Dad for a mushroom walk when I arrived this afternoon, came across this nice "Penny Bun" or "Cep". Didn't notice the tick on it til I got home!
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Geum, beautiful wee flower in the garden just now. Seed heads pretty spectacular too!
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Swallow having a stretch!
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Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
