
Heath Spotted Orchids at Ballannette. June 2016
Rare

Heath Spotted Orchids at Ballannette. June 2016
Rare
There’s this little stretch around the water at Ballannette that I call Butterfly Ally. This Cabbage White is my first butterfly photograph of the season, taken at the end of May. 

Ballannette, Isle of Man April 2016
Earlier today at Ballannette, Isle of Man.
Life Imitates Art
Nature can be both amazing and wicked and I witnessed this yesterday at Ballannette Wetlands in the Isle of Man. I noticed a few large black insects on the water generating a centrifuge with the sole purpose of pulling their prey straight into their grasp. An ingenious plan! The smaller critters had no escape as the whirligig became wider and more and more were forced into the danger zone. Nature at it’s best and most cruellest!