Hare Today...

Wildlife photography is all too often an exercise in frustrated patience (punctuated by some rapid firing and praying to the Gods of Shutters that you've captured the frame). And then sometimes. Just sometimes. It's sitting in the middle of the track, it waits while you stop the car and turn off the engine, it ambles towards you as you frantically scramble to attach the long lens, it mooches to the side as you hit the button to whirr the window down because shooting through the windscreen is pointless, and it poses, for an instant, as your lean out hoping that your manually focussed skills haven't deserted you.

Same walk as last week, which then brought 900g of wild raspberries. This time we returned with 1.6kg, and I've got a stack of bug shots. Best amongst those, and which would have been blipped but the for the hare, was a lovely Hoverfly on a thistle. Some links to a few more I liked at the end.

Pop Quiz: These look like something out of Alien, what are they?*

Weekend has been too quick (as ever).

Angry Soldier Beetle
Blue Bottle just hangin' around
Green Bottle
Wee frog

*Cabbage White Butterfly eggs.... About a mm across each (at most)