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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

93% lunar eclipse at 05:12 southern England. Sometimes waking in the night for a wee has its rewards.

Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still a few butterflies on the Berkshire Downs. As well as these mating Brown Argus there were lots of Small Heath and an occasional Chalk Hill Blue.

A pair of Brown Argus butterflies back to back, making eggs.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📸 PHOTO SPECIAL What felt like half of Oxford was out in the parks and meadows to see the eclipse last night. Our photographer Roger Close captured the atmosphere at South Park where Oxford University's Space & Astronomy Society held a watch party… oxfordclarion.uk/throwing-sha...

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Throwing shade on Oxford

What felt like half of Oxford was out in the various parks and meadows to see the eclipse last night. Our photographer Roger Close captured the atmosphere at South Park where Oxford University's Spac...

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse at Bury Down on the Ridgeway (south England)

Sequence of shots (5 mins interval) showing the solar eclipse from the Ridgeway (south England)

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Early cellophane bees (I think) in flight. Thousands of these solitary mining bees on a sandy bank at Center Parcs Woburn. Females busy digging holes for eggs and males busy interrupting females.

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Hazel tree (Corylus avellana): Female Flower

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Snowdrops at St. Botolph's (11C) Swyncombe, Oxfordshire

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

RSPB Otmoor. Dec 22. Grey, low light, but the starlings still make their shapes

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Definitely a Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae) and probably silver birch aphid (Euceraphis betulae) n the first picture. Aphids and eggs in the next pics - are they the same aphid. All in SIlver Birch tree.

Birch Catkin Bug and silver birch aphid on Silver Birch catkin.

Silver/white aphid and eggs on silver birch leaf

Green aphids and eggs on silver birch leaf

Green aphids (and nymphs?) and eggs on silver birch leaf

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Probably Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae). Mating?

Probably Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae).

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Formation flying display. Red Kites on Lardon Chase, Streatley. #birds #redkites #lardonchase

Two red kites with synchronised wing formation

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Seen at Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, Milton Keynes. @theparkstrust.bsky.social

Brimstone butterfly and a small ant feeding on dandelion

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Never knew they existed, until I saw this one: Dark-edged Bee Fly (Bombylius major). Harmless. Mimics a bee, so as to lay its eggs in the mining bees nest. (Ectoprasitoid). Single wing pair, long legs, straight proboscis. Excellent. Seen in Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, Milton Keynes.

Dark-edged Bee Fly on a dandelion. Face on view

Dark-edged Bee Fly on a dandelion - view from above

Dark-edged Bee Fly on a dandelion - side view

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

For Easter, the Pasqueflower, from the Aston Upthorpe downs, the sole remaining native site for the Pasqueflower in Oxfordshire. Thanks to the @plantlifeuk.bsky.social volunteers for showing me where they are, and removing the rabbit protection for the photos. www.theastons.net/environment/...

Pasqueflower closeup. The common name 'pasque' derives from the word 'paschal' which means 'of Easter'.

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Early crocus in Inkpen crocus field and Combe Gibbet in Sunday's mist.

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Some birds from my final Instagram/threads post - to help get started here on BlueSky.

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Digitalsafaris @digitalsafaris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Bit of a niche subject for a first post. Found on silver birch. Photographed indoors. Probably Silver birch aphid (Euceraphis betulae) Family huddle of Two adults, wingless brown egg-laying female (oviparae) and winged male plus nymph (fourth instar immature fundatrix?)

Aphid huddle. Male female adults and nymph

wingless brown egg-laying female (oviparae)

nymph (fourth instar immature fundatrix?)

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