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Slowworms spring 2017 Slowworm; Anguis fragilis;,late spring on Buckinghamkshire heathland,I come across these every year as there seem to be good numbers in this area.And early morning before they warm up they are relitivly easy to photograph The bottom one has its tongue out ,which these dont seem to do as often as other reptiles

Rabbits and Orchids Getting ready for a trip up to Scotland so,fairly local again this week.Back to the young rabbits,which is actually a site I have been looking for yellow wagtails,and the lack of success is told in the images being again young rabbits -still they make nice images and these ones seem so tame I couldnt resist.    The orchids are really a couple from an ongoing project,taken earlier in the week at a site in Leicestershire

Young Rabbits While taking a break from building the new web site ,thought I would take a look around a local rabbit hot-spot European rabbit,Oryctolagus cuniculus, juvenile feeding by the entrance to its burrow,late spring in Oxfordshire

Dawn on a spring morning ,at fairy glen gorge Part of a project to photograph this site through the seasons.Golden spring sunlight pentrates the gorge at Fairy glen,betws y coed,Snowdonia national park.                                           www.carlmckienaturephotography.com

 Well finally got to work on the new web site today,        This will be for the foreseeable future run alongside the old one(www.wildaboutphotography.co.uk),and will be aimed more at the fine art print and integrated  e-shop,for a planned expansion of photography related products.   I expect it will be several weeks yet before it is rolled out as fine tuning what I actually want and trying to make it future proof, in as much as can be done with constant new technologies,hopefully it will also have a fresher look to it. I also wanted to find a way to integrate all the social media and Internet activity that now seems to play such a big part in photography,and simplify it so it was all accessible(to the viewer)maintainable and up-datable(By me) from a single place,as I seem to be constantly clicking through a growing list of bookmarked admin pages to do the same thing. So with a list of things to research,images to select and size,new pr...

Red Kites,Gigrin farm Red kites,Milvus milvus, at Gigrin farm ,a spectacle of over two hundred birds being fed.Late afternoon in spring

Stag beetle larvae and a close call with fire wood   Stag Beetle larvae, Lucanus cervus,feeding on rotting willowThese two specimens had a close call when they where found in some wood being chopped up for the fire-they now have a new piece of wood in a quiet corner ,where they can pupate ,and emerge as adult stag beetles in early summer

Snake's head fritillaries Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris,on an early spring morning in an oxfordshire flood meadow Once widespread and common in the Uk,is now restricted to a handfull of sites along the Thames Valley