{"id":4933,"date":"2016-07-19T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2016-07-19T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:01:52","slug":"insects-by-the-waveney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4933","title":{"rendered":"Insects by the Waveney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a walk over the river Waveney last week when we saw a beautiful dragonfly in the riverside foliage. As I only had my mobile phone with me, I used the camera from that to photograph the dragonfly. However, I couldn&#8217;t get close with the phone before it flew off &#8211; the only photos I managed were by zooming in from a distance and the quality was awful.<\/p>\n<p>So, for our next walks I took my compact camera. Here are the results of the first walk where I saw some butterflies &#8211; this may be a Large Skipper (but let me know if I am wrong!):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"moth-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0534r1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"moth2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0537r1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next walk showed the same type of dragonfly as before but I was able to get closer. This may be a male Banded Demoiselle or possibly a Beautiful Demoiselle:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"dragonfly 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0561r1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"dragonfly 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0550r1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"dragonfly 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/s16_0559r1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice to see such beautiful creatures in the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a walk over the river Waveney last week when we saw a beautiful dragonfly in the riverside foliage. As I only had my mobile phone with me, I used the camera from that to photograph the dragonfly. However, I couldn&#8217;t get close with the phone before it flew off &#8211; the only photos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insects by the Waveney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,24,40,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-environment","category-nature","category-norfolk","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}