Nick Upton / Common swifts (Apus apus) flying overhead, Wiltshire, UK, June. Digital composite image.
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Nick Upton / Close up view of a Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea) nectaring on a Field scabious (Knautia arvensis) flower, with another trying to court with it, Wiltshire, England, UK, July.
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Nick Upton / Slow motion cllip of a Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea) nectaring on a Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense) flower, with another trying to court with it, Wiltshire, England, UK, July.
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Nick Upton / Close-up of a Dark green fritillary (Argynnis aglaja) nectaring on a Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa) flower and flying off, Wiltshire, England, UK, July.
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Nick Upton / Close up of a male Yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) climbing up to the top of some sheep dung, Wiltshire, England, UK, March. Slow motion clip.
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Nick Upton / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) female and a young cygnet foraging in sunset light, Kennet and Avon canal, Caen Hill, Wiltshire, UK, June.
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David Kjaer / Duke of Burgundy butterfly (Hamearis lucina), Wiltshire, UK, June.
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Nick Upton / Dewpond on the Ridgeway, recently renovated and relined by the Marlborough Downs Nature Improvement Area project, Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire, UK, March.
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Nick Upton / Bloody-nosed beetles (Timarcha tenebricosa) mating on a grass stem in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, April.
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Nick Upton / Pollen and nectar flower mix strip with Mustard (Brassicaceae), Common sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) and Red clover (Trifolium pratense) bordering a Barley crop (Hordeum vulgare), Marlborough Downs...
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Nick Upton / European robin (Erithacus rubecula) standing upright in a territorial threat display in a meadow among patchy snow, Wiltshire, UK, January.
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David Kjaer,David Kjaer / Great Bustard (Otis tarda) adult male breeding plumage in full spring display, on Salisbury Plain, part of a reintroduction project with birds imported under DEFRA licence from Russia. Salisbury Plain...