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Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) feeding on intertidal mudflats. Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK.

Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris). Arne, Dorset, UK. Just how close to a tiger beetle can one get with a macro lens I wondered? About this close and not much closer I concluded. They don't seem to like facing their own reflection in the lens cover however - and who could blame them. The...

Watching some nuthatches in the car park and some woodpeckers having a fight al;so waiting to see if a firecrest was around..I was informed there is a tree creeper above your head in the tree..thanks..got it..:-)

Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) on the heath. Arne, Dorset, UK. Tangling with pretty much anything which came within a 20cm radius. Wouldn't sit still for a portrait.

An inquisitive Wren perhaps looking for a nest site..

Taken at Arne in January

This is the Tree Creeper that was with the Gold Crest

Female and male wasp spiders (Argiope bruennichi). Arne, Dorset, UK. Male wasp spiders are not normally easy to find but this young lady had attracted 4 of them. Not sure if this fella was the right side of the web for what he had in mind...?

Wild osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with freshly caught bass on the salt marshes of Poole Harbour at Arne. 13/09/10. The result of 3 weeks' preparation and one remarkable hour. 'Picture Arne' competition entry Photo © Dom Greves Canon EF 100-400mm | 1/200 sec @ f/8.0, ISO 100...