What lens do you use for these? Great!
Yes my photo, cropped. It was a tricky shot as I had my 6 year old balancing on my shoulders at the time!
I have an Olympus MFT Camera, and used a Panasonic 100-400 for this @187mm. I find it’s a pretty versatile wildlife lens and works well for me, but is a bit heavy.
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Great shot.
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One of my favourite and in my view most beautiful local wild bird, the goldfinch. I think they are just leaving their nests with young now and I think I saw tonight a family of them out feeding on the ground. If you are interested and visiting parks or overlook gardens there should be plenty of birds periodically with all the young leaving nests and / or adults hunting overtime for feed those not ready to.
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Saw some sparrows in the garden for the first time today since we moved here 15 years ago! Have often seen them on Grierson Road going to the station but never around here. Used to see so many as a child in West London.
Here is a crow in the fading light from a couple of days ago.
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Seen in my garden yesterday afternoon. Can anyone confirm what it is?
I’m guessing a damsel fly of some sort…
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I think it would be the common blue damsel fly…
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I had a look in my book - maybe a Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly? I’m no expert though!
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Found this beautiful stag beetle in our garden. It was on its back struggling so the kids gently turned it over. We had a ruler from a school activity and it measured just under 7cm… pretty large for this time of year!
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Thanks, logged!
We had one of those in our garden last week. Good to know exactly what it is 
When our neighbour had his bird feeders out hanging on branches, we would see lots of sparrows everyday feeding. They are so cheerful to see. But when we had a rat in our garden (gone now 
) he took the feeders down in case they were encouraging it, so we still have a few & we think there was a baby being fed in our guttering as well last week.
Blackbird I assume collecting food to take back to the nest - comes every day to get a lot of worms, slugs and seems to try and get a few snails as well.
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No photo, but I saw a Kestrel hovering at Bell Green yesterday near where the Gasholders used to be - I was driving (stopped at the lights!) - a lovely sight. Am hoping it will stick around as last time I saw one was around a year ago I think.
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I would say large red damselfly.
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London Wildlife Trust have produced an excellent booklet on dragonflies in London. You can download it here. https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/water-for-wildlife
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Could be either Oak or Speckled Bush Cricket they are very common on shrubs and trees. I am put a link to a pdf file https://www.orthoptera.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/Common%20Bush-crickets%20and%20Grasshoppers.pdf so you can ID it also can ask a expert using he iRecord website https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/
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