it's good to share

A couple of images captured on recent nature walks for you this week, that demonstrate the values of sharing and compromise that exists in wildlife; and which we would do well to copy in our world.

Must be something about thistles that fosters a community spirit amongst our winged wildlife!  Either that or there is a surplus of insects and a shortage of wildflowers for them to rest on!

Anyway, first we have an orange skipper and a 5-spot burnet moth being joined by a tiny hoverfly:

Fujifilm X-H2, Fujinon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6
1/640th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
handheld

And then we have a more common type of fly and a ladybird trying to get along, but see if you can spot the numerous other bugs present here:

Nikon D700, Micro Nikkor 105mm f2.8G
1/200th of a second at f6.3, ISO 200
handheld

You can watch the video where the second of this week's images was shot just by magically clicking on the link below.  Go on, you know you want to…