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@FegWitch Perfect 👌🏻

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@FegWitch @NorthWildlife Oh wow, "the more you practice the luckier you get" as somebody once said. Must've been a wonderful experience.

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@FegWitch Beautiful pics Penny. Are they taken with your OM-1?

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@DistinctlyAver3 @BucksFlyTipping And this is not new. I remember coming back from holidays in Europe and one of the first things I would notice is the amount of litter in England. In the //1970s//.

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@DistinctlyAver3 @HMWTBadger @CanonUKandIE @Natures_Voice @CHILTERNSNATURE Perfect!

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@lnrwildphoto @BDSdragonflies @JulianThomas19 Definitely Coenagrion, and female. Is this on the Levels? If so, I'm not seeing any reason why it shouldn't be Azure or Variable?

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@robinmmorrison @RNNMarch I'm as pro wildlife as you are Robin, but it was recreation which first drew me to the countryside. Surely the best course of action is to educate those who use the countryside for other purposes? I would make an exception for anti-social activities such as jet-skiing of course.

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@TauntonPeregri @somersetbirds @TauntonMinster Awesome!!!

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@WildImaging Wow!

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@DistinctlyAver3 @james_sellen @RSPBbirders @clairenuttall20 @WaxwingsUK Do you have a link to that Phill?

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@brownhairstreak @BCSomerset @savebutterflies @SomButterflyRec @UKBMSLive Field grasshopper, based on the strongly 'waisted' markings on the pronotum

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@FegWitch What a wonderful experience.

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@FegWitch @EdHorncastle @CBWPS1 Great persistence and a great shot!

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@DistinctlyAver3 @BoxMoorTrust @BDSdragonflies I'll have to make a point of looking out for them...

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@atomkraftbeer @RSPBEngland @mrjamesob @RishiSunak @michaelgove @theresecoffey Exactly the words I had in mind.

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@ashman_alan A few days ago we had four sightings in one visit to a hillside near Langport, ovipositing on lady's bedstraw. Plus one in a friend's garden in Taunton the day before. Don't think I've ever seen so many.

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@puffinpassion @RareBirdAlertUK @OMSYSTEMcameras What a lovely image. Takes me back to the one we had in Somerset a few years ago, but I only got flight shots, nothing to compare with this!

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@rlewington2 Sign me up for this when it's published!

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@DistinctlyAver3 @BDSdragonflies @BBOWT @BBCSpringwatch Great stuff Phill 👍