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The Rogue Naturalist
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Naturalist & wildlife photographer.
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Beautiful female Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).
Managed to get quite close after it caught prey in the garden.

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#wildlife #nature #lincolnshire #lincswildlife #birds #birding
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Found a whole bunch of these little Fairy Inkcap fungi (Coprinellus disseminatus) next to an old apple tree.

#fungi #fungus #inkcap #nature #wildlife #mushroom #fungifriends
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A very quick Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) hunting the water margins on the south delph.

#birds #wildlife #outoutside #nature #birding
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) on a bramble flower earlier in the year.

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October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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After a short bimble round the woods this morning I found these absolutely tiny fungi.
I think it’s maybe Beechleaf Bonnet (Mycena capillaris)

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October 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) just coming into land on a floating reed.
Just need to up the shutter speed slightly next time.

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#wildlife #nature #lincolnshire #lincswildlife #dragonflies #demoiselle #dragonfly
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) sits on the same reed with its own nymph skin after it crawled out of the water to moult into the adult form.

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October 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Female Emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator) laying eggs on a submerged reed.

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October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) on a nettle.

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#wildlife #nature #lincolnshire #lincswildlife #spiders #nurseryweb #arachnids #buglife
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Not something you might spot every day ....
A Scorpion Fly (Panorpa communis).

#wildlife #nature #lincolnshire #lincswildlife #flies #insects
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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More #fungi from this morning. Popped up in the middle of a lawn.
Brown roll-rim (Paxillus involutus)
#fungifriends

#nature #wildlife #fungus #lincswildlife
October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I missed #fungifriday yesterday so here is a belated Golden Waxcap (Hygrocybe chlorophana) on Lincolnshire grassland.
#fungifriends

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October 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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An Ichneumon Wasp (Dolichomitus imperator) sat on a thistle head.

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October 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Another one from earlier in the year.
A male Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus).

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October 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Juvenile Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) sat in hawthorn scrub.

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October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Nice pair of Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) from earlier in the the year.

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October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Won’t be long till these guys return to my local patch.
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris).

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October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A duck day the other day :)

Tufted (Aythya fuligula), Pochard (Aythya ferina) and Gadwall (Anas strepera).

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February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Autumn colours from only a few weeks ago :)

#autumn #firstpost #nature #woodland #autumnwatch
November 18, 2024 at 9:43 AM