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Really not much of a spider fan (house spiders ruined the species for me) but this nursery web spider caught my eye on m...
07/07/2023

Really not much of a spider fan (house spiders ruined the species for me) but this nursery web spider caught my eye on my woodland rambles and I didn’t get the spider shudder (progress!)

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Almost missed this beautiful moth as I fought through a particularly overgrown section of my transect - a first for me b...
07/07/2023

Almost missed this beautiful moth as I fought through a particularly overgrown section of my transect - a first for me but I’m pretty sure it’s a large emerald (am hoping will correct me if I’m wrong!) Not a great photo but it was on a very narrow and ver overgrown path deep in the wood and I was juggling my glasses, notepad, camera, pen and luck!!

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I counted more than 60 Heath fritillaries on my transect two weeks ago but this week, I saw less than ten! A short but g...
07/07/2023

I counted more than 60 Heath fritillaries on my transect two weeks ago but this week, I saw less than ten! A short but glorious season in the sun? Still lots of cow wheat flowering in the woods and still some lovely specimens to be seen on the Radfall Route

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An abundance of ringlets were in flight yesterday - many of them dancing (battling?!) in twos and threes___ ...
07/07/2023

An abundance of ringlets were in flight yesterday - many of them dancing (battling?!) in twos and threes

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Managed to capture a red admiral resting in the warm sunshine but the two white admirals I saw flitting about the upper ...
07/07/2023

Managed to capture a red admiral resting in the warm sunshine but the two white admirals I saw flitting about the upper branches of an oak tree remained tantalisingly elusive 😖

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Lots of flashes of orange in the woods yesterday, with Gatekeepers on the wing. I wasn’t sure if I’ve just been unlucky...
07/07/2023

Lots of flashes of orange in the woods yesterday, with Gatekeepers on the wing.

I wasn’t sure if I’ve just been unlucky over the past few weeks in not seeing such a diversity of butterfly species along the woodland rides so it was reassuring to see lots of gatekeepers mingling with numerous ringlets and meadow browns as summer takes hold

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Look at those ‘horns’! Spotted a couple of little longhorn moths in the woods yesterday 💚___
10/06/2023

Look at those ‘horns’! Spotted a couple of little longhorn moths in the woods yesterday 💚

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When I see the dog roses blooming, I get those hazy lazy summer vibes… ☀️
10/06/2023

When I see the dog roses blooming, I get those hazy lazy summer vibes… ☀️

Face-to-face with a holly blue in the woods 🦋
10/06/2023

Face-to-face with a holly blue in the woods 🦋

Some more shots of the heath fritillaries nectaring and powering up in the sunshine yesterday 💚🦋
10/06/2023

Some more shots of the heath fritillaries nectaring and powering up in the sunshine yesterday 💚🦋

Every other week (from April to September), I count butterflies in a transect in Thornden Woods for as part of the UK B...
10/06/2023

Every other week (from April to September), I count butterflies in a transect in Thornden Woods for as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and yesterday morning I was so happy to see my first heath fritillary of the year! Made my day. This is a rare and beautiful butterfly which has been flourishing in the thanks to careful conservation work.

I was particularly happy to capture this gorgeous creature on some flowering cow wheat, the larval food plant for this species.

PS am I the only one who can't help saying 'hello' out loud to each butterfly that flutters into view!! 🤦‍♀️🤣

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