Mayfly Day.

Today is #Mayfly day in these parts. This one was swallowed by a fish moments after filming. Scroll left for mayflies doing their mating dance on their one day as an adult.

A post shared by Jonathan Tarplee (@jonniegitahhr) on May 20, 2018 at 11:15am PDT

Huge numbers of Redwings visiting this winter.

Plus the odd blackbird...

An old mobile phone pic of an Ichneuman wasp

The previous post/photo (taken today) reminded me of this one I took back in 2013 which I've just taken from my facebook timeline. 

I was pretty impressed with how lucky I was that this tiny creature was both a) still enough for a moment for me to get a half-decent image and b) was in frame (as it was too bright for me to see the screen on my phone).

A Broad Bodied Chaser sunning herself.

Not bad for a mobile phone pic I suppose.

Cuckoo Pints in the woods.

Weird fungus?

Or something on this nettle. The woodlouse seems to like it.

Frittilaries growing near the Trent and Mersey canal in Kidsgrove.

Windy

It's been windy around here this winter.