Videos

A squirrel trying to eat as much as it can of some food which has been left out for birds.

Something else I tried out for the first time: the high speed movie mode on my camera. This is of a wasp eating on an ivy flower.

Hopefully the picture quality will improve with practice. But even on a first try I was stunned watching the segments of the insect’s abdomen moving in relation to one another, and the way the antennae waved around.

My first try at an animated video. The robin (and the original of the picture) shown here was featured in a post
last February.

This fly was eating from flowers on the same ivy as Wednesday’s hoverfly. Video

On warm days at this time of year, lots of insects go wild for the nectar of ivy flowers. This hoverfly was one such. Video

A ladybird cleaning its legs and mouth parts. A couple of aphids also walk insouciantly by.

The ladybird is not the twelve spot species claimed in the closing titles of the video: corrected identification is as the title says.