12 August 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

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A juvenile Great Crested Grebe was the highlight of today's birds.  The first one I've seen for a while. It was feeding close inshore near the road.

Alongside the track just after the gate I found an early instar Peacock Butterfly larva curled up in a slight spinning on a nettle leaf, and in the Pavilion Wood, a Nettle Tap (Anthophila fabriciana) was resting on its favourite foodplant.

Further round I came across an interesting spider in a slight orb web, which after some investigation looks to be possibly a Tetragnatha species, perhaps T. extensa.

Juv Great Crested Grebe, 1/500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 320 (view full size image)

Peacock Butterfly Larva, 1/500 sec, f/11.0, 451 mm, ISO 8000 (view full size image)

Nettle Tap, 1/400 sec, f/11.0, 500 mm, ISO 25600 (view full size image)

Tetragnatha Sp, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 200 (view full size image)