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| Female Pheasant 2020* |
Today we returned to Stainburn Forest to see if we could catch one of the moths we had seen yesterday on our bike ride through the area. Having my husband carry the pink fishing net was quite funny and I was so pleased he came with me. There was method in my madness as the moths were near one of the ponds and I wanted to pond dip for newts.
On this trip I found a few things I have not recorded before and they will be going on their individual page hopefully with a bit more information. If it has a 2020*, new for this year.
Butterflies were out, but not the same numbers as the day before, a bit dull today but still very warm we are due a thunderstorm.
Did see a Peacock Butterfly and the odd white ones in the distance but no photo.
The moth we had gone to see did not show its self, no sunny spots to fly in. So we will have to try again, a few people have commented on Twitter and they think it is a Bordered White moth.
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| 25 June 2020* |
Could this be Bordered White - males fly around conifers in sunshine. Comes to light. Rests with wings held above the body and pressed together like a butterfly. Males vary from yellowish in the south to white in northern England and Scotland. (John Scurr) Twitter.
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| Young Song Thrush |
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| Water Figwort (Scrophularia auriculata) 2020* |
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| Water-hemlock (Oenanthe crocata) 2020* |
There is some debate over this flower, I was thinking Hemlock Water Dropwort, (Oenanthe crocata).
It is from the Water dropworts family, need to take a better photo especially of the leaves.
Most Water dropworts are very poisonous so need to show it a little respect!
*UPDATE*
Water-hemlock (Oenanthe crocata)
the leaves are definitely O. crocata, I think that other inflorescences have been cut/grazed and so it is producing atypically small and delicate inflorescences, I cannot see anything to suggest O. fistulosa (Twitter)
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| Water-hemlock (Oenanthe crocata) 2020* |
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| Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 2020* |
These Larva are also causing a bit of a problem, we believe they are Figwort Weevil Larva . Turns out there is two very similar species, I will explain more on it's own page (here).
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| 2020* |
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| 2020* |
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| Large Skipper |
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| Ringlet butterfly just unfolding it's wings. |
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| Ringlet butterfly |
First pond
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| Common Newt |
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| Tadpoles and Water Striders |
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| Blow fly |
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| Meadow Brown Butterfly |
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| Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly |
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| Water Beetle |
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Lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
The other similar species is the supposedly rare Chrysopa dorsalis which is associated with Pine trees. The main distinguishing feature is the pale spot between the eyes - which is roundish in C. perla and more oval in C. dorsalis. (Nature Spot)
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| Perforate St John's-wort ( Hypericum perforatum) and Hoverfly |
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| Red-necked Footman (Atolmis rubricollis) 2020* |
Red-necked Footman is an unusual find in this area, have put it on iRecord.
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| Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) and Common Blue Butterfly |
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| Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) and Common Blue Butterfly |
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| Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) |
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| Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) |
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| Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet. |
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| Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) 2020* |
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| Slug |
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| Blackfly |
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| Notch-horned cleg-fly (horse fly) Haematopota pluvialis |
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| Notch-horned cleg-fly (horse fly) Haematopota pluvialis |
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| Downlooker snipefly (Rhagio scolopaceus) |
The Downlooker snipefly gets its name from its habit of sitting on posts or sunny trees with its head facing down to the ground, waiting for passing prey. It prefers grassland, scrub and woodland habitats.
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| Sawfly |
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| Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) |
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Large Red Damselfly and male Dolichopus sp
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The flies and the Damselfly were jostling for the sunny spot.
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| Female southern hawker |
There were two females drying in the sun, looks like this one has caught it's wing in a spiders web, hopefully it managed to free it's self later.
I have been desperate to come pond dipping here for ages and was quite jealous a few weeks back when a young lad turned up with his granddad to pond dip for tadpoles.
On the first scoop I managed to catch a dragonfly nymph, odd are it is also a Southern Hawker.
P managed to catch a Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus) , there was many but they were staying in the middle of the pond.
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| Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus) |
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| Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus) |
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| Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) |
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| Football Hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus) |
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