Claire Haskins Photography

Claire Haskins Photography Claire Haskins is a wildlife photographer based in Watchet, West Somerset Wildlife photographer based in West Somerset, UK.

Specialising in macro of insects, flowers and fungi

One thing there are always plenty of to photograph here are these majestic ponies. By an idyllic stream as the sun sets ...
30/08/2024

One thing there are always plenty of to photograph here are these majestic ponies. By an idyllic stream as the sun sets this Exmoor pony grazes gently on Brendon Common

One of my favourite things to photograph, charismatic beetles! Even better a dung beetle 😀 This minotaur beetle (Typhaeu...
29/08/2024

One of my favourite things to photograph, charismatic beetles! Even better a dung beetle 😀 This minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus) was running across the path by the moorland last summer at Heddon Valley on the search for the next pile of tasty rabbit droppings for feeding its young

A rarer sighting today from last summer when these fritillaries were on the wing for a short time. This small-bordered p...
28/08/2024

A rarer sighting today from last summer when these fritillaries were on the wing for a short time. This small-bordered pearl fritillary (Boloria selene) was seen basking in the grassland of Haddon Moor in Exmoor

It's not just insects that hide in the gorse. Slightly larger than yesterdays hidden creature is this majestic little co...
27/08/2024

It's not just insects that hide in the gorse. Slightly larger than yesterdays hidden creature is this majestic little coal tit (Periparus ater) looking for those insects amongst the flowers and stems

Contrasting with the pink heathers out on Exmoor is the bright yellow of the gorse flowers. Have you tried looking withi...
26/08/2024

Contrasting with the pink heathers out on Exmoor is the bright yellow of the gorse flowers. Have you tried looking within the gorse to the inhabitants inside? You may find bugs like this gorse shieldbug (Piezodorus lituratus) living amongst the flowers of the gorse of Heddon Valley

It's that time of year when the heather is in full bloom looking spectactular across the moors. If you look closer in th...
25/08/2024

It's that time of year when the heather is in full bloom looking spectactular across the moors. If you look closer in the heather you see the hard working insects all over it. Here a bee feeding on the heather at Dunkery

It's feeling more autumnal today so a picture from Autumns past to fit with the weather! A young fly agaric (Amanita mus...
24/08/2024

It's feeling more autumnal today so a picture from Autumns past to fit with the weather! A young fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) taken in the woods near to Horner push through the grassy path edge

Is this the way to... Reading the signposts is a skill that is learnt early down in Exmoor, with this young goat kid in ...
23/08/2024

Is this the way to... Reading the signposts is a skill that is learnt early down in Exmoor, with this young goat kid in Valley of the Rocks trying to work out whether it wants to go to Lynton or Woody Bay along the South West Coast Path...

A break from the insects to something that eats insects 😀 Recognisable by, and named after, its distinctive call where i...
22/08/2024

A break from the insects to something that eats insects 😀 Recognisable by, and named after, its distinctive call where it calls "chiffchaff chiffchaff..." this little Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) was found flitting around the trees near to Heddon Valley

In the depth of the woodland at Horner in Exmoor a red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) rests on the brambles in the...
21/08/2024

In the depth of the woodland at Horner in Exmoor a red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) rests on the brambles in the undergrowth

Just along from Webbers Post near Horner Wood are some impressive ant nests. The southern wood ants (Formica rufa) scour...
20/08/2024

Just along from Webbers Post near Horner Wood are some impressive ant nests. The southern wood ants (Formica rufa) scour the nearby woodland collecting insects to feed up the next generation of the ever growing colonies. When I was watching the amazing chains of ants carrying insects back to the nest last year this beetle needed a group of ants working together to carry it back over the leaf litter

World photography day seemed to be the right time to start posting photos again. Here a garden chafer (Phyllopertha hort...
19/08/2024

World photography day seemed to be the right time to start posting photos again. Here a garden chafer (Phyllopertha horticola) taken last year at Haddon Moor

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