Garden wildlife photography 2010: readers' shortlist

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?'
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Tiny hoverflies on a buttercup flower in a wild flower garden by Blue Melanistic
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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
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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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Squirrel by psc631798
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Weevils mating by mike@firstsightimages.co.uk
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Female speckled bush cricket by dcpbath
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Jay by Lynsey
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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
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'A very slow slow worm that crawled out onto the freshly cut grass in the garden,' says andynayler
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Bee-fly, Bombylius major by mike@firstsightimages.co.uk
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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.'
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Ladybird enjoys a lazy Saturday afternoon in a Norwich garden by Martin Barber
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Toad by dcpbath
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House sparrow feeding its fledgling chicks by Martin Baldwin
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Large red damsel fly by Andy Trickett
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Slithering by Andrew Richard Mills
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Great spotted woodpecker chick, by Wurzel Pete
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Eye to eye with a young mouse by Blue Melanistic
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