It's been a while, so here's another random assortment of photos from a few things, a field trip to a heath today with some students, a field trip at a marine society conference, and some rings I made in a silversmithing course.

Spot the sand lizard

Sand Lizard 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Juvenile raft spider by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Grass snake 3 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Ants 5 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Never seen wood ants do this swarming behaviour before unless they were feeding, but there wasn't any food around.

Ants 1 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Ants 4 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Rings I made

Ring 8 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr



Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Ammusingly shaped sea-cucumbers

Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Discovery Deep Sea Expedition samples by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Rusting car on the side of the docks:

IMG_5270 by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Tiny sea spider

Pycnogonid by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


Long-spined Sea Scorpion by Chris_Moody, on Flickr


View leaving the harbour by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Taken with Binaries 100-500mm lens

Black headed gulls by Chris_Moody, on Flickr

Some of your crazy sealife photos are a timely reminder that we should be looking at going down perhaps more than we should be looking up 

I should have made a note really, but I think it's a species of Dragon fish