Summer
For wildlife watchers summer is when insect life is most abundant. It is the best time to get to know moths, dragonflies, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and all our other amazing minibeasts!
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Summer spotter
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Summer woodland spotter
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Summer Flowers Spotter
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Summer wader spotter
Can you spot any of these waders this summer?
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Summer night-time nature spotter
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What makes the spit you see on leaves in summer?
What is that stuff?
Keeled skimmer
The keeled skimmer is a dragonfly of heaths and commons with shallow pools. It has a skittish and weak flight, and is on the wing in summer and early autumn.
Join Bing for 30 Days Wild!
Join Bing for this year’s 30 Days Wild and discover a range of fun and inspiring activity resources for young children and their schools and families.
Black-tailed skimmer
The black-tailed skimmer is a narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen flying low over the bare gravel and mud around flooded gravel pits and reservoirs. It is on the wing from May to August.
Shore clingfish / Cornish sucker
One of the most bizarre fish to find on the rocky shore, the clingfish appears an assortment of different animals stuck together!