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Garden wildlife photography 2010: readers' shortlist

Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Bee by Mike Foster. 'At first I thought honeybee but this looks more like another mining bee but a different species. Anyone help? Andrena tibialis or Andrena haemorrhoa?'
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr (last added)
Tiny hoverflies on a buttercup flower in a wild flower garden by Blue Melanistic
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Fox by Andrew Richard Mills. 'Straight at me though grass. Almost looks like it's in the wild, but just in my uncut grass in my garden,' he says
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Green hairstreak on gorse by Pat The Plant . 'It was a big surprise to see 30 of these beautiful butterflies which I had probably passed many times but never noticed before.'
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Squirrel by psc631798
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Weevils mating by mike@firstsightimages.co.uk
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Female speckled bush cricket by dcpbath
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Jay by Lynsey
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Spider by Rosemarie.s.w . 'When I took this the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up and I was thinking eeuuuk but how interesting its details are close up,' she says
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
'A very slow slow worm that crawled out onto the freshly cut grass in the garden,' says andynayler
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Bee-fly, Bombylius major by mike@firstsightimages.co.uk
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Blackbird youngster by Laura Whitehead . 'Was pleased with this shot, all except for leaving out the feet! Another two young blackbirds appeared today, very fresh out of the nest, and rather curious as to what the garden had to offer whilst they explored their new surround.'
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Ladybird enjoys a lazy Saturday afternoon in a Norwich garden by Martin Barber
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Toad by dcpbath
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
House sparrow feeding its fledgling chicks by Martin Baldwin
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Large red damsel fly by Andy Trickett
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Slithering by Andrew Richard Mills
Photograph: Flickr
Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr
Great spotted woodpecker chick, by Wurzel Pete
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Garden wildlife: readers gallery on Flickr (last added)
Eye to eye with a young mouse by Blue Melanistic
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