Until July 2017, documenting the seasons of coastal Dorset. I'm a complete amateur so don't trust I'm always right. If ever you see I'm wrong - whether with identifications or in anything else - do say! Meanwhile . . . I've now moved to Halifax in West Yorkshire. Click on the link below to collect the new URL. Don't forget to follow there!
Showing posts with label BROWN EYES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BROWN EYES. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

CHEATING

I know this is cheating. I know this isn't a proper post. But I've fallen in love with a fly.

Black fly with stiff, spiky hairs on its back and big brown eyes
A little less than a centimetre long. Photo taken September 2nd 2014

I don't know what kind it is. Just that he (he?) is the pantomime villain. Pure evil to be hissed at and hated and applauded and wanted-to-see-agained. The star of the show. What character!

It's the great thing about cameras. If I hadn't taken this photo, if I hadn't cropped it and enlarged it almost to extinction, I wouldn't have noticed his stand up prickles and strange feet. All I would have remembered would have been his big brown eyes.

Dear Fly,
If you are a 'she' I apologise. But I doubt you noticed me or observed me long enough to register my gender.