animals

this was but a few millimeters long.

spotting animals is so rare in London that it’s always worth telling others about it.
but what if you haven’t got a blog ? write it on a piece of paper and stick it in the street.

perspective is a funny old thing

close up with shadow

this is a very strange thing. an 8 legged horse. fancy that.

vin sent me this pile of photos of grubs asking if i could help him identify them. he knew i wouldn’t have a clue but wondered if you did.
He writes:

I wonder if you’d be kind enough to post these pics of a tiny grub I
found today in the hope that some knowledgeable reader can identify
it. I’ve had no luck so far on Google.

It was in this kind of discus-shaped sac-thing, just lying in a
flower -bed. It measured a quarter of an inch (6mm) across, and when
the grub wriggled (more like a convulsive jerk), the whole thing
moved. When I first saw the movement in the dirt, I had assumed an
ant was tugging at a leaf disc (as they do), but it wasn’t really
going anywhere, just turning around and jerking about. Thanks Vin

i saw this snail on a wall as i walked to get my train at ten to 6 this morning. it was really zooming along and i got a bit freaked out that it was going to climb up the camera lense.
so i took as many shots as i could then ran to get my train. which itself was a quite a slow thing.
i’m quite impressed by the detail on a snail’s head. click the pic to inspect the big version.

what IS this meant to be ?

here’s a pelican which probably belongs to the queen as it’s in the park next to her house.

(the black blob on the picture is the reason i sent my camera to the menders)

i didn’t go inside this hutch to see if it contained an actual rabbit or an actual guinea pig. anything left on the streets of london is asking to be eaten !