Evening Primrose
Teasel
Comma
Common Darter
Southern Hawker resting on blackthorn
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Thanks to Mark Hockey for some more brilliant pictures – check out the gallery. We have a work group organised again for this Saturday – 13th September, 2014. Anyone is most welcome to join us. We meet in the lay-by by the car wash on Countances Way at 09:30.
Wildlife this week
A few pictures from Mark Hockey’s visit this week:
A cracking picture of a Kingfisher in flight, a Speckled Wood, Peacock and the sunlight on the hills towards Beamsley in the distance.
Kingfisher
Peacock
Speckled Wood
Beamsley
Purple Hairstreak
We are pleased to report there have been several Purple Hairstreak sightings of late. Now is a good time to spot the elusive creatures, who spend most of their time living amongst the branches of oak trees. The warm summers evenings are ideal for spotting them flitting amongst the leaves although getting a photo is not easy. There is more than one oak tree on the site so if you’re interested why not pop down on a warm and sunny evening and take a look. 6:30pm onwards is a good time.
I hasten to add the butterfly photo is not one of ours but we are working on that! You only tend to see them from a distance but if you see butterflies in the oak trees, at that time, it is more than likely this is what they are. We saw some tonight in an oak tree in the Northern corner of the North Lawn:
Bottle digging problems
Bottle digging continues at the Nature Reserve and proves to be a thorny issue. The latest dig was in a discrete area, but leaving broken glass and rubbish exposed is not something you want to encourage on a Local Nature Reserve. The photos here don’t really do it justice, but it would be interesting to hear other people’s opinions on this pastime.
I can see why some of these areas have been dug and some of the finds may be interesting but it is a bit disrespectful to the volunteers, who have worked hard for the site to be awarded Local Nature Reserve status, to be confronted with this.
