Ladder Snake and Calima
Bumped into this beautiful Ladder snake having a snooze, warming up, or whatever he was doing, on the dog walk yesterday morning.
Tag: nature
Conehead Mantis
I went out with the macro lens to photograph wild orchids. This little guy came over to see what was going on.
The day Griffon Vultures came to town
I went to check on the Lanjaron 7 this morning after shopping. Turns out they were the Lanjaron 20 or so!
What night time visitors do we get in the garden?
Have you ever wondered what night time visitors you get in your garden? Well I did, I know we have them, they leave evidence behind, some more so than others! So I set up a camera trap that I'm lucky to have and hope never to have stolen.
How fragile life is
A poppy seems, to me, a good example of how fragile life is. I photographed these beautiful poppies in the morning, a few hours later they were gone, gone for good.
Sunset - the ever changing colours of the sky over Lanjaron
As you know living here in the Alpujarras, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, we are often treated to spectacular sunsets over Lanjaron
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)
Many times I've stood next to the palm tree in the garden and thought the tree sounded alive. Little did I know it was actually being eaten alive.
The day I met an Ocellated Lizard
A strange meeting with the incredible occelated lizard in the Alpujarras
On the trail of the Quebrantahuesos!
The Quebrantahuesos (bone breaker), Gypaetus barbatus, Bearded Vulture, Lammergeier, Lammergeyer or what ever you want to call it, is one of the rarest birds in Europe.
An incredible encounter with Golden Eagles
I had the most amazing Golden Eagle encounters yesterday. I was driving up on the Ventura track to extract some clients who had been on a 4 day winter mountaineering trip in the Sierra Nevada
Thread-waisted Wasp (Sceliphron spirifex)
Living here in the campo of Lanjaron in Andalucia you get used to seeing some strange insects. I photographed this one the other day. It is a Thread-waisted Wasp.
4 of what I think are my best recent photos
Bird photography. Not alot to say about these as they are self explanatory. Hope you like them.
Scorpion! - Buthus occitanus or Buthus ibericus
So there I was minding my own business weeding away in the veggie garden, when I felt a sharp pain in my finger. I took my glove off to investigate what the problem was but noticed movement to my right ....... a scorpion making a run for it!
Dragonfly - Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)
New camera lens - best picture by me so far has been this beautiful female Dragonfly she is a Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)
