A wildlife wordsearch

Sainsbury's reindeer scenes

Reindeer scene draught excluders - look pretty, but unfortunately not reindeer. Reindeer have thicker antlers, and different noses.

Footprints in the mud

Foot prints in the mud of the river Severn. Tracks going round in circles, and those who made them.

When the leaves fall from the trees

When the leaves fall from the trees, small details are revealed. Here is a small birds nest, hidden from view until now.

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Platycheirus albimanus

Platycheirus albimanus - a type of hoverfly.

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)

Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Rose Sawfly (Arge pagana)

Note the different sized abdomen's - male and female perhaps?

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Eristalis pertinax

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Eupeodes

Eupeodes hoverfly.

Political states in Bradley Stoke

It's general election time, so time for the now quadrennial political statement from Hercules Close.

A picture of spring

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke: House fly

Musca domestica, House fly.

Wildlife of Bradley Stoke: Bee Fly

Bombylius major, known as a bee fly, feeding on flowers.

Rook

Greylag geese

A skein of greylag geese.

Eider ducks

The call of eider ducks - in amongst the call of Black-headed gulls. They are the Frankie Howerd of the duck world - ooh!

2014 Rainfall

Rainfall during 2014.

Average of the rainfall over the last seven years. For the year, the total was 1165 mm, which compares to 901.5 mm for 2013.