Wild spotting to look for in January — Wild spotting

“I saw this roaming free in Rodborough”

“Seaweed”

“Barnacle at the beach”

“Cool limpet! Good to see some seashore life fro a change :)”

“Woodlouse”

“Snail”

“I found this chap in the garden”

“Leon”

“What a lovely photograph”

“Wild bicycle”

“Wild carrot (Daucus Carota)”

“Jay”

“Goldfinch”

“Grayling butterfly”

“California Poppy”

“Smooth Hawksbeard (Hawksbill Crepis Cappilaries) seen out on a bike trip recently”

“Treecreepee in Stratford park”

“A heron”

“Llama llama llama... Or is it an alpaca?”

“Flowering nettle”

“Wild garlic everywhere”

“Garden tiger moth resting.”

“Wall on a wall...”

“Hornet moth”

“First snow”

“You'll need binoculars to see this, but perhaps you can spot the flash of blue.”

“Found this groovy fungaloid on the way home”

“A beautiful fly”

“I love the wings of this Green Lacewing!”

“Tiny, tiny frog!”

“Small Tortoiseshell butterfly in my garden.”

“One of my favourites! The Marbled White butterfly”

“Putting up a Swift nesting box at Rodborough Tabernacle”

“A big mushroom we found growing out of a tree in the Old Orchard”

“Baby Bird”

“Fungi”

“Alpaca spotted by Darcie”

“A Meadow Brown butterfly in my garden.”

“A Dingy Skipper in Gloucestershire.”

“Marsh Fritillary on Brenney Common. Beautiful markings!”

“Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary on Brenney Common, Cornwall.”

“Cygnets spotted by Bethan”

“Squirrel”

“Sheep, south cerney”

“Poppies”

“Rabbit, south cerney lakes”

“Scarey Tree”

“Helicopters”

“Bumble bee”

“Bumble Bee”

“Spotted on walk around the lakes”

“Playing in our paddling pool”

“Marsh fritillary at Strawberry Banks”

“Spotted on our walk through ragged hedge woods”

“Ladybird larvae spotted by Bethan”

“Male and female damsel fly in the stream behind my garden. Can you spot them on the leaves?”

“Cygnets down at the Duck Pond”

“Red kite. But this one had lost most of its tail feather on the right V. Above the meadow at Hawkwood college.”

“Beautiful horses in the field behind the Black Horse Inn in Amberley”

“Brown Argus butterfly in Polzeath! 🦋”

“I saw this spider on a pole!”

“Slow worm”

“Peregrine Falcon. According to Cirencester's wildlife group, a drone was flown over yesterday and a nest with two chicks has also been spotted!”

“Hedgehog on camera trap”

“A real Cirencester Hare!”

“Mr Centipede”

“Ground beetle seen in the garden by Eamon.”

“Daisies - Seen in the garden”

“Spotted two Herons on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Devizes. This is the second one on the opposite bank and difficult to zoom in on, who had a sizeable roach in itsbeak and was trying to work out how to eat it. Shame we couldn't get a closer picture. The other heron was socially distancing so is on another picture.”

“Woodlouse found by Bethan”

“Coal Tits feeding on nuts in our courtyard. As close as it was possible to get.”

“Herb Robert, found by Bethan.”

“Dragonfly”

“Our regular pair of Buzzards enjoying the sunshine while we were sitting on our balcony”

“White Butterfly”

“Buttercups”

“Swan”

“Blue Tit eating fat ball at my aunty's garden”

“One swan waiting for 'The Hourglass' on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes to come out of lockdown. 5/05/2020”

“2 x Pike”

“Iris”

“Mum with 4 ducklings”

“Shield bug in my office!”

“Tadpoles in the stream!”

“Stitchwort is my favourite hedgerow plant!”

“Silver ground carpet moth!”

“Thrift on the cliff.”

“Morning Campion, canalside ,Kennet &Avon”

“Tadpole cluster in the Kennet and Avon Canal”

“Wild Garlic”

“Ducks on the canal”

“Grey Heron”

“The bottom of my garden a slow worm”

“Pair of buzzards circling over the canal.”

“Spotted on our balcony this morning 30/04/2020. We heard an owl in the night, With talons sharp and eyes so bright, In the day he wasn't there. He's sleeping out in Nanny's chair.”

“Grey Squirrel running along the fence outside our window at breakfast time”

“7/8 Roach feeding in the K&A Canal Common Carp”

“I think it was a white-tailed bumble bee, because it was fat and fluffy. It was buzzing around a dandelion that was growing in the cracks in the patio. I also spotted a red mason bee.”

“Lungwort”

“Spotted this spotty anemone during my beach walk.”

“Red-tailed bumblebee feeding.”

“Spotted next to a railway track near Ebley”

“A lovely chestnut growing near the railway track”

“Two peacock butterflies together”

“Sea campion on the Cornish coast path near Pentire farm.”

“This little Ashy mining bee was feeding on an Alexander growing in a roadside bank.”

“My beautiful Apple tree”

“When you look into a tulip you can see stars.”

“Cherry blossom out at last.”

“Griffins above the window frame.”

“Large yellow daisies.”

“Muntjac roe deer”

“Loads of this beautiful common spurge in the hedgerows here!”

“Oxalis in the lawn.”

“Thistle leaves are spiky!”

“Dandelion face!”

“Seven spotted ladybird”

“Tiny little two spotted ladybird.”

“Pretty Herb Robert nestled in the hedgerow.”

“Beautiful comma butterfly in my garden. Saw 4 different species of butterfly today 😊!”

“Slow worm”

“Pretty perriwinkle in the hedge near my house.”

“Found a tiny two spot ladybird!”

“A seven spot Ladybird!”

“Ants on an Alexander!”

“Brimstone Butterfly”

“This tortoiseshell butterfly was waiting outside my front door!”

“A beautiful peacock butterfly, spotted in Stinchcombe, near my house!”

“small daffodils and lavender”

“A single daffodil”

“Goldfinches are so pretty and they have a really distinctive song. Spotted it today from my kitchen and thought it would make a good wild spotting.”

“Saw some hedgehogs yawning in the back garden”

“I found this leaf skeleton in our garden”

“I drew this fox”

“This is a fox I drew.”