Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

[fredg]

First a little image of my Twayblades. They're not so large this year but looking well.



I've had a renewel of interest in some of the rosetted Drosera. Most of mine were killed off in the 2010 -11 winter and I didn't replace them. I was sent a few this year and then I acquired a few more  .

Drosera slackii





Drosera x hybrida

[fredg]

Drosera hamiltonii I've not grown this Australian sundew before.




Drosera filiformis ssp filiformis - Location Blackwater NC




Drosera filiformis ssp filiformis, a darker pink flowered clone.

[fredg]

A little D. spatulata type thingy that's been roaming about the collection for years. The flower is all of 8mm.

[Maggi Young]

Super Drosera pix, Fred.

[fredg]

Taken this morning at Ogston Reservoir, Derbyshire, A Little Egret on the hunt and the demise of a Dragonfly it found.
This looks to be a good location for waterfowl. There's a Heronry with about 20 nests, Cormorants by the bucket load and a little more than a gaggle of geese. Plus many others to numerous to mention.

[fredg]

MrsG and I took a little stroll this morning to see what was happening with the local Odonata.

We were a few weeks later than last year and it seemed to show in the numbers that were on show.

Common Darters - Sympetrum striolatum were around doing 'what comes naturally' and sunning.



We also spent some time trying to get a photo of a Brown Hawker - Aeshna grandis in flight. Not the easiest of tasks and one I find impossible to do without laughing as the shutter fires as I know the Hawker isn't where it's supposed to be.
I eventually came up with this one, not exactly in focus but it looks like it's spotted the Red Baron at 2 o'clock low. I like it




Finally a Bumble on Dipsacus. Why? Well, it was there and I was there and it seemed good enough for me 

[fredg]

Drosera scorpioides is my one and only pygmy Drosera these days. I've kept many of the others in the past, stopped growing them, restarted, stopped again so I decided this time just to grow my favourite.

Here's a few leaves.

[ian mcdonald]

Good pictures Fred. The one of the egret seems to have failed though, unless it,s my machine?

[fredg]

It's not you Ian. It looks like the forum doesn't accept the embedding anymore. I checked and my videos are all blanked. There's still a link showing though and that takes you to youtube.

[Maggi Young]

Very odd, all were showing here last night when Ian  made his comment. Usually the embedding of Youtube videos  works without showing a link if only http:// and not https:// is used.

 Hmm, trying again I have managed to re-embed the Egret video by opening the Youtube link to check that then re-posting the link in the  post without the https:// part....... seems to work here ......and all Fred's other videos are also showing and playing direct from the forum from my machine.   

[ian mcdonald]

It,s working now.

[fredg]

Not for me, they've gone back to blank

[Maggi Young]

I think it must be an individual problem rather than a Forum issue, though, Fred.

[fredg]

I'm not sure what you mean Maggi. I just checked four other fora and the same hyperlinks are fine there.

[Maggi Young]

Nothing changed  by forum here and all showing here, so perhaps something just happening to some people some of the time?
 Checked back to other videos from you too Fred, all working fine here.