Island Nature Gallery

Posted by Martin on 04/10/09. Last updated on 04/10/09 • Categorized as Island Nature

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Squat Lobster at Bembridge Ledges
Squat Lobster at Bembridge Ledges
Chamaeleon Prawn at Bembridge Ledges
Edible Crab with attendant periwinkles
Teletubbies What are these little mounds? They’re actually Yellow Meadow Ant nests grown over with plants to make perfect little tepees.
Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata This one (again by Dave Dana) is down at the Gift to Nature Wetland Walk along with Hairy Dragonfly – excellent news after all the hard work b …
Long-legged Spider Crab
Peacock Just a nice pic of a Peacock looking partuclarrly luminous on a dull day.
Rockling, quite a big rockpool fish we often come across at intertidal events.
Big Fat Orchid This is a Southern Marsh orchid or some fairly close hybrid growing on a site we’re currently restoring back to valley mire habitat (so we can have more orchids and lots mor …
Prawn. Just about the commonest thing we catch at rockpooling events.
Big Spider Crab
Assorted sealife
Brittle Star, tiny little starfish, quite common around the Island but hard to spot.
Hairy Crab. It’s a crab, and it’s hairy.
Bank Vole nut Messy eaters, voles.
Gruesome but interesting A nice close-up using our USB microscope and showing a whole jaw lodged in one of the barn owl pellets we’ve been collecting from Newport site.
Hairy Dragonfly Brachytron pratense Another marvellous shot by dave Dana also on Brading Marshes. This is still a very scarce species on the island but becoming more often recorded after a …
Dormouse nut A magnified image to show the neat beveled margin left on a dormoused hazel nut. It’s often the tracks and signs left by animals (and especially mammals) that give us the info …
Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata A fabulous picture of this early dragonfly by Dave Dana out on Brading Marshes.
Wood Mouse nut A magnified close-up of a hazel nut nibbled by a wood mouse to show the nice chiseled edges.
Oxtongue Broomrape A spectacularly rare flower in the UK but doing very well out on the cliffs at Afton and now spreading along the roadside verges so much easier to see and enjoy!
Oxtongue Broomrape Orobanche artemesiae-campestris Out on the Afton roadside verge with Pyramidal Orchids.
Ivy Hug Ivy can get to be amazingly thick, but it rarely really damages a tree unless the sheer weight (often in a gale) brings the thing down. But the combination of tree and ivy is a sup …
Millers Thumb Cottus gobio This little fish, also called the Bullhead, is an internationally protected rarity! But it’s really quite common in Island streams. We’ve been doing a lot of wo …
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Brittle Star
Chiton A very curious mollusc.
Badger Badgers are very heavily protected but still there are lots on the Island. Here’s one snapped at an Island location by a very expert and fully licenced chap.
It’s a Scute What’s a Scute? It’s a bit of prehistoric body armour – and this bit is from a 35-million year old crocodile called Diplocynodon. This fragment was picked up on the little bea …
Bee Orchid This is what Bee Orchids look like in the winter – you can spot them quite easily and then remember to come back in June when they’re in flower.
Brackish Water Crowfoot Not the most spectacularly exciting of plants but a good one for the Island. This patch popped up in a newly excavated ditch near the coast where we’re restoring in …
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