Hatherleigh Festival Wildlife Photo 2025 Entries

Here are all of the photo competition for this year.

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Next year’s entry form is now open:

Quarry Fish

Description: Tiny fish swimming past the edge of the lake at Meeth

Place: Meeth nature reserve

Category: 0-11 years (primary)

Dragonflies

Description: 3 dragonflies

Place: Meeth nature reserve

Category: 0-11 years (primary)

Recycling?

Description: A baby jackdaw fell into our backyard

Place: Backyard of 41 Bridge Street

Category: 0-11 years (primary)

Fuzzle Bottom

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh ally way to new estate

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Mr Shnizles

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh river behind the market

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Picture prefect

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh ally way to new estate

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Butterfree

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh river behind the market

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Mr flufz

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh, ally way to new estate

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

May the fly be

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh river Behind the market

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Buttercup the dragon fly

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh vicks meadow

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Buttercup chilling on a rock

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh vick meadow

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Buttercup is having fun

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh vicks meadow

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Pink flower bee blooms

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh (forgotten where)

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

A damselfly fly named River

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh (it came into our home)

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Quill.I.Am

Description: A hedgehog

Place: It lives in our garden 🙂

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Nightime visitor

Description: A hedgehog

Place: In our Garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Visiting the hoggie café

Description: Hedgehog in our café

Place: In our garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Tiny nightime visitor

Description: A little hedgehog in our garden

Place: In our garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Bug

Description: A bug in a flower

Place: In our garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Web of Life

Description: A nest of Nursery Web spiders nestled into the long grass

Place: meadow near Hatherleigh

Category: 12-16 years (secondary)

Moon Daisies and Dartmoor

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh churchyard

Category: 17 years +

Canada geese

Description:

Place: Near the river

Category: 17 years +

Can you see me?

Description: Roe Deer Fawn, waiting for its mother to return.

Place: In field at Moorhead, Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

Hatherleigh verges

Description:

Place: Near Lower Moor

Category: 17 years +

Brimstone butterfly

Description:

Place: Higher St Garden

Category: 17 years +

Baby grass snake

Description:

Place: Garden in Higher Street

Category: 17 years +

Hatherleigh Moor

Description: Taken at Festival wildflower walk 2024

Place: Mount Pleasant

Category: 17 years +

Frosty morning

Description: Scabious

Place: Hatherleigh Lower Moor

Category: 17 years +

Broad-boddied Chaser

Description: Dragonfly (Libellula depressa)

Place: Garden in Petersmarland

Category: 17 years +

Fox up close

Description:

Place: Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

Just a Spoonful of Sugar

Description: Honey Bee feeding from a spoon

Place: 2 Claremont Place, Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

Yellow Rattle in our wildflower garden.

Description:

Place: In our garden.

Category: 17 years +

Bumble bee on Spiraea flower.

Description:

Place: My garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

Brimstone Butterfly

Description:

Place: Highampton

Category: 17 years +

Unusual town wildlife

Description: Three young goats escaping their pen behind the Market

Place: Hatherleigh Community Market

Category: 17 years +

Foraging

Description:

Place: Top of Higher St

Category: 17 years +

Snoozing

Description:

Place: Top of Higher St

Category: 17 years +

Nectar collecting

Description:

Place: Somewhere near the monument

Category: 17 years +

Sunny side up

Description:

Place: Top of Higher St

Category: 17 years +

This years new arrivals.

Description: I love it when the first young woodpecker finds the feeders in the garden.

Place: This was taken from my kitchen window

Category: 17 years +

A confident young Woodpecker

Description: This young woodpecker is happy to come to the feeders now on its own.

Place: This was taken from my kitchen window

Category: 17 years +

Mr Jackson

Description:

Place: My garden

Category: 17 years +

Magical May

Description: Apple tree in bluebells

Place: In my garden

Category: 17 years +

Busy Bee

Description:

Place: In the garden

Category: 17 years +

Getting ready

Description: Jackdaw helping itself to dog hair we put out for nest building birds

Place: Glascott Close

Category: 17 years +

The bearer of gifts

Description: A pollen laden bumblebee visits a waiting flower

Place: Hayes Barton, Jacobstowe

Category: 17 years +

Nice and comfy

Description: Little grebe on nest

Place: The pond, Hayes Barton, Jacobstowe

Category: 17 years +

A touch of summer colour

Description: Yellowhammer

Place: Hayes Barton, Jacobstowe

Category: 17 years +

Not my usual perch!

Description: Kingfisher waiting by garden pond

Place: Through the kitchen window, Hayes Barton, Jacobstowe

Category: 17 years +

No mow May/June

Description: Southern Marsh Orchid

Place: Hayes Barton, Jacobstowe

Category: 17 years +

Is there any for me?

Description: Juvenile dunnock

Place: Victoria Road, Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Description: Eating peanuts

Place: In our Garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +

A gang of Long Tailed Tits

Description: Long Tailed Tits on a feeder

Place: In our Garden in Hatherleigh

Category: 17 years +