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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2010-07-11 05:19 pm

Urban Nature Pictures 7/5


European robin on the Reading campus.



One section of the campus had been turned into a wildflower meadow.


This is for you, Alexis!


Ladybird beetle on daisy.


Hoverfly on a sunflower (or close relative).


Honeybee on flowering shrub.


Bumblebee on wildflower (anyone know what it is?)


Ladybird beetle relative on sunflower (or close relative),

[identity profile] barbmg.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty!

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

also, that hoverfly has a beetle friend!
Edited 2010-07-11 21:36 (UTC)

[identity profile] alikander.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
We call that a "proper robin" in my family.

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. The North American bird should be called the "American house thrush."

[identity profile] deathling.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds really appropriate.

[identity profile] deathling.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw the Robin is so small n cute!
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[personal profile] weofodthignen 2010-07-25 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's a real robin :-)

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