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Sunday, 28 December 2014

CMR Beetles are great colourful subjects to photograph but they do so much damage!

While working in the garden, I removed picked up a rock and found this little snake under it!

What a gorgeous colour and such an obvious dark head.

After I took the photos I did a Google search and found this to be a

If you click on the name of the snake you will be redirected to Wikipedia to read more about it,

This was quite a find and I am very glad to have had time to fetch my camera before the little snake slowly slid away to find a new spot to sleep.

Being Christmas today I had in mind to post something red, but

the red flower that I had hoped to photograph today had fallen off overnight

Walking around the front of the house, I found this Red Bishop chasing a grasshopper ...

... and he had a number of followers

Wishing everybody a very joyous Christmas!