28 days ago, @BBCSpringwatch on Twitter set the challenge of photographing nature for 100 days. So I decided to take up the challenge. After 28 days, it occured to me that I should be placing these photos on my blog. So here they come.
Day 1: A hoverfly, Volucella bombylans, that mimics a bumblebee. This is the first time I've seen this species. It was on a Buddleja bush near my home in Stevenage.
Day 2: A juvenile Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, on the bird feeder in my front garden.
Day 3: A Lesser Water Boatman, Corixa punctata, in a pond at Heartwood Forest, Sandridge.
Day 4: A Beech, Fagus sylvatica, near Nettleden, Hertfordshire.
Day 5: A Wood Avens, Geum urbanum, in my front garden.
Day 6: A Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum, at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 7: A Riband Wave, Idaea aversata, in my house.
Day 8: A Wild Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 9: A fungus on an English Oak, at Gunnels Wood, Stevenage.
Day 10: A Comma, Polygonia c-album, at St Leonard's Church, Sandridge.
Day 11: A Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, near Luton Airport.
Day 12: Greenbottles, Lucilia sp., at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 13: A Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, at Six Hills Common, Stevenage.
Day 14: A White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis, at Great Ashby District Park, near Stevenage.
Day 15: A Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 16: A bug at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 17: Hawthorn berries, Crataegus monogyna, near Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire.
Day 18: Sawfly larvae, in Sandridge, Hertfordshire.
Day 19: A grasshopper, at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
Day 20: A Pill Woodlouse, Armadillidium vulgare, at Great Ashby District Park, near Stevenage. My first ever photo of a crustacean.
Day 21: A moth at Great Ashby District Park, near Stevenage.
Day 22: A female Wood Duck, Aix sponsa, at Barclay Park, Hoddesdon. The first time I've seen this bird.
Day 23: A male tachinind fly, Phasia hemiptera, at Great Ashby District Park, near Stevenage. Another first for me.
Day 24: A Damson, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, near Rushden.
Day 25: A Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria, at Jersey Farm, Sandridge.
Day 26: A Small Tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, near my home in Stevenage.
Day 27: A small earthworm at Great Ashby District Park, near Stevenage.
Day 28: A bug, Corizus hyoscyami, at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage.
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