Wildlife around the village

During several walks around the village over the last week or so, Andy M has taken a few photos of all the wildlife, birds, insects, animals and flowers, that caught his eye - from the Old Railway Cutting, around the former LSA and on Granta Park.

 Rabbits on the Pampisford Road meadow

 Pyramidal Orchid on the LSA

 Meadow Brown butterfly

 Large Skipper butterfly

 Grasses catching the early morning sun

 There's a Hare in my flax!

 Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on bramble flowers

 White-tailed Bumblebee on Bramble flowers

 Chiffchaff (dark legs!) feeding in the tall Hemlock

 Male Blackcap singing from deep in the undergrowth

 Meadow Brown butterfly on bramble

 Grey Heron stalking in the shallows of Granta Park lake

 Pond Skaters

Pond Skater

 Centaury flowers and hoverflies

 Common St John's Wort

 Hedge Bedstraw

 Hoary Mullein

 Male Linnet

 Male Linnet singing

 Wild Marjoram (in bud)

 Meadow Brown

 Chiffchaff - one of the few species still regularly singing

 A young Fox in the flax field

 Ragwort

 Marbled White butterfly

 Red Kite gliding slowly overhead 

 Common Toadflax

 Small Tortoiseshell butterfly soaking up the warm sun

 Goat's Beard

 Large Skipper butterfly

 Seven-spot Ladybirds enjoying the protection of a thistle

 Marbled White meets Hoverfly

 .. and trying to make room for all on the flowers!

 Small White butterfly

 Bindweed

 Hoverflies ... hovering around the Mullein

 It was virtually one Hoverfly per flower ...

... and there were many Hoary Mullein flowers available! 

 Centaury

 White-tailed Bumblebee on Common St John's Wort

 Hoverflies enjoying a particularly good flower!

Cinnabar Moth