On this day 2 June 2020

  This is the view from the car park, there was still mist in the bottom of Harrogate, another nice warm day with a little breeze . Much quieter all round today, highlight was finding the little Toad and seeing a few butterflies despite the lack of flowers. It has not rained much in the last 3 months. Also got Wall, and small tortoiseshell (no photo)

I was having one of those days were the camera liked to focus on anything but the thing I was photographing !!!!

Chaffinch

Small heath butterfly,

Scorpion fly

Willow Warbler

Forest Walk

Forest pond

Butterfly walk

Tadpole and Strider 

Cranefly Tipula oleracea

Fairy Flax ( Linum catharticum)

Hawkbit flower

Speckled wood Butterfly

Cranefly Tipula oleracea

Saw fly

Meadow / Green grasshopper

Small Copper Butterfly

Lesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor)

Ground beetles (Carabidae)

Hover fly

Green tiger beetle ( Cicindela campestris)

Two-banded longhorn beetle 

Large fly

72.084 BF2462 Mother Shipton Euclidia mi



Common blue  butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)

Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula)

Toad

4 comments:

  1. It looks so nice and quiet there :) Lots of super photos of your sightings. The Fairy Flax is so pretty and I always like to see Scorpion flies. You certainly had a great walk. A super post :)

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    1. Thanks Caroline, I love the fact there is such a range of wildlife and at the moment I manage to find something new every time I go.

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  2. This is great, so much to see, I'm really going to have visit here soon!

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  3. It's a definite must on your list. 😊

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