Name | Date | Where etc | |||||||
Grass snake | 27/8/2005 and 10/9/2005 | Rodental. I saw another two grass snakes earlier in the same (27th) day, one of which was much bigger. This was around 1m long. Apparantly the cloudy/blue eye means it's about ready to shed its skin. | Little video clip (6MB) from 17/9/2005 (same place) - 2 out of the 4 snakes in one heap | ||||||
Addersnake | 14/4/2007 | Woods near Newtown, Isle of Wight | |||||||
Female scorpion fly | 10/9/2005 | Rodental. The male has an upturned tail that looks like a scorpion tail. | |||||||
Great GreenBush Cricket | 5/8/2005 | Coburg | |||||||
Roesel's Bush Cricket | 21/8/2005 | Hacksberg near Coburg | |||||||
Pond Skater | 27/8/2005 | Rodental | |||||||
Eurygaster testudinaria (Maybe) | 19/8/2005 | Woods behind Coburg castle | |||||||
Forest Bug | 23/7/2005 | Rodental | |||||||
Graphosoma italicum | 21/8/2005 | Coburg | |||||||
Violet Ground Beetle Carabus violaceus |
6/6/2007 | Inside house, Isle of Wight. | |||||||
Frog with tail | 7/8/2005 | Rodental. He was pretty small, but there were other frogs around smaller than him without tails... so it seemed a bit odd he still had his. | |||||||
Harvestman | 14/8/2005 | Coburg (my flat). NOT a spider | |||||||
Hornet | 16/10/2005 | Coburg | |||||||
Bumble Bee | 23/7/2005 | Rodental | |||||||
Hover Fly | 5/8/2005 | Woods behind Coburg castle. I thought this was a bee - but a real bee has long antennae. | |||||||
Hover Fly | 24/7/2005 | Rodental | |||||||
Crane fly (daddy long-legs) | 30/8/2005 | Untermerzbach | |||||||
Rhagonycha fulva | 8/6/2007 | Nettles near Roslin, Isle of Wight | |||||||
7-Spot Ladybird Larva | 8/6/2007 | Nettles near Roslin, Isle of Wight | |||||||
Ladybird larva. This had its bottom stuck to the leaf, and would raise its body and legs. | 13/6/2007 | Nettles by Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight | |||||||
Ladybird pupa | 8/6/2007 | Nettles near Roslin, Isle of Wight | |||||||
10-Spot Ladybird | 8/6/2007 | Undercliff near Niton, Isle of Wight. The pattern is very variable. | |||||||
Oyster Catcher | 8/5/2003 | Isle of Arran (Scotland). Didn't realise at the time, but this Oyster-catcher (or carrot), had a nest nearby and was doing all sorts of tricks to distract us - pretending to have broken a wing and lying down in front of us for example. | |||||||
Oyster Catcher Nest | 8/5/2003 | Isle of Arran (Scotland). Not exactly comfortable to sit on, I imagine! | |||||||
Waxwing | 14/1/2006 | Staffelberg | |||||||
Raven nest (with me standing below) | 9/5/2003 | Isle of Arran (Scotland) | |||||||
Crow | 27/5/2006 | Frankfurt am Main | |||||||
Jay | June/July 2006 | Some of the 4 jays that regularly come to my balcony in Offenbach. | Video on YouTube. | ||||||
Blackbird | 7/4/2006 | My balcony in Offenbach | |||||||
Mandarin duck (female) | 9/4/2006 | Frankfurter Stadtwald | |||||||
Kingfisher | 10/6/2006 | Muehlheim | |||||||
Red Squirrel | 15/5/2006 | My balcony in Offenbach | |||||||
Unknown (Please let me know if you can ID!) | 13/6/2007 | Nettles by Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight | |||||||
Unknown (Please let me know if you can ID!) | 13/6/2007 | Nettles by Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight | |||||||
Unknown (Please let me know if you can ID!) | 8/6/2007 | Nettles near Roslin, Isle of Wight |