Image updates only refers to wildlife images. Some of the most recent additions will be posted on this page. Older images will ultimately drop off the page. Images presented here will not necessarily make it into the permanent pages.
A wee bit of video which is reduced to 640 x 480 and 4:3 aspect ratio because it is a wildlife camera in a bird box.
Blue Tits nesting in a bird box which for ages has only been a roosting stop-over for a Great Tit. The Great Tit tends to move on in pretty weather.
In this brief video you can see the eggs before the birdie returns from feeding presumably.
I have an earlier video of one adult bringing food for the roosting bird.
This box has a 32mm entrance so it is surprising that the Blue-Tit is using it, given the hole makes it accessible to bigger birds.
May 4th. 2026
A Green-veined White. There are many 'Whites' on the wing but I am unable to identify in flight, as they can be one of several species. The trick is to try and catch them on a plant: May 2nd. 2026
The Green Hairstreaks are a bit calmer today but it was not as hot. Less shy for the lens as well. That earlier wind has largely vanished from the area and was causing problems recently: May 2nd. 2026
Opinion has it that this is a Song Thrush species: May 1st. 2026
Managed to find a better opportunity to shoot some Green Hairstreak video. The 'trembling' of the plant is not down to wind but some large ants engaged in some activity on the stems. This was along the old railway. Recorded a lot of different Butterflies today now the sun is out and the East wind has dropped: April 24th. 2026
Green Hairstreak at last. A bunch of them seen yesterday in the East wind gales which continued today but seemed to be lessened. Image from today (the only one I found) as yesterday's not good enough due to shaking vegetation I suspect: April 22nd. 2026
A terrible image I know but I had one chance only and had to shoot from the hip (as it were). The message is that the birds are waking up at last and a lot of LBT's seen (little brown things). This could be the Willow Warbler as the legs do not seem dark enough for the Chiff Chaff. That said I may be wrong, especially on birds. Only seeing Peacock Butterflies but this week should start to pick up given the forecast, which also may be wrong: April 19th. 2026
This is obviously a young bird and I think it maybe a Whinchat but I am checking with someone more expert. If it is then it is my first Whinchat on the website record: April 13th. 2026
Yet another Peacock. My fifth today: April 13th. 2026
The significance of this for me is that I caught it along the old railway. They had to be there and now I have got one. Disturbed it in the Bilbbery where I was scanning for Green Hairstreaks. So cold I was able to pick it up, photograph it on grass and put it back in the Bilberry. Another GH no-show week: April 10th. 2026
Temperatures well over the Butterfly threshold but still no Green Hairstreaks seen and I have been searching in many places. Plenty for the bees to feed on with this Gorse bush that is semi-sheltered and I do not recall it being barren over winter: April 7th. 2026
Plenty of Peacocks all over but we want more. Saw my first Brimstone (male) yesterday but on the wing: April 7th. 2026
First lizard of the season: April 7th. 2026
After days of dismal weather things are now brightening up. Believe this to be a Violet Oil Beetle (Meloe violaceus) charging across the terrain: April 6th. 2026
And Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) the Butterfly magnet is now starting to develop. Still no Green Hairstreaks: April 6th. 2026
