Fritillary

at SWT St Martin's Wood.

Bats - pipistrelle social calls

searching - third sound is a social call. Thanks to David from the Bat Conservation Trust forum for educating me as to what the strange call was

Bats

They're too high for us to hear normally, so this recording is slowed 10x to become audible

Homing in and taking out an insect

Orange Tip

Orange Tip butterfly, Bradfield Woods. Reasonably co-operative to being photographed, unlike the cabbage whites. I haven't yet got close enough to one of them for a shot

Purple Orchid

Handsome purple orchid growing in Bradfield woods

Oxlips

Bit ho-hum for me - too pastel yellow for my taste. I prefer the orchid in Bradfield woods but apparently these are concentrated in the Bradfield woods area and of national importance according to the Suffolk Wildlife trust.

7-spot ladybird

A bog-standard 7 spot ladybird Cocinella 7-punctata (thanks to A Pocket Guide to the Ladybirds of Britain & Ireland) Digital cameras aren't so good on red, to my eyes this has drifted orangey compared to what it looked like in the field, despite white balanced locked on direct sun

Treecreeper

Treecreeper working its way up a silver birch at Barham with the morning sun on his back