Fen Drayton Gravel Pits (now RSPB) - Sunday July 20 2008

Good varieties of birds seen this afternoon, but good images were hard to come by. Here is a sample of the best.Goldfinch in typical pose
Hobby
One of the many Common Terns

Two pictures of a Gatekeeper


More Common Terns

Sunday July 13 2008 - aircraft presumably from Old Warden over the garden

Hawker Sea Hurricane Z7015 and Miles Hawk Trainer N3788
ditto

Hawker Sea Hurricane Z7015
Miles Hawk Trainer N3788
Gloster Gladiator K7985
Miles Hawk Trainer N3788 and Gloster Gladiator K7985
Hawker Hind K5414

Swifts and Martins in Garden - 04/07/2008

These birds are definitely not easy to photograph! However, here is a selection of the 100+ shots I took today.

Bumble Bee 04/07/2008

I thought at first this must be Bombus Lucorum, but after consulting the internet I am not so sure. Apparently the males of Terrestris can have white "tails" too and "the workers and males of these two species are impossible to tell apart unless they are dissected"! I didn't have my dissecting knives with me, so it goes down as Bombus Lucorum or Terrestris.