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Christmas Day 2010: it was -6 Centigrade outside and this small tortoiseshell butterfly turned up in our bedroom. Beautiful to see, but a little surreal!

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arachnophobes should look away now!

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a little crab playing hide and seek on Charmouth beach. we were actually looking for Jurassic fossils….

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a Harris hawk from the GLA’s Hawkforce patrols Trafalgar Square to scare off pigeons, May 2012.

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an ant nest found inside a terracotta pot in the garden. the ants were not impressed. June 2012.

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as much as I abhor wasps, there is a serene beauty in this photographic capture of one. July 2012

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a hover fly lingering above the daylillies. July 2012