The warm, damp and humid conditions this evening brought out large numbers of Common Toads on Twelve Yards Road making for a very slow drive home trying to avoid them and stopping to move them off the road! At least 50 counted but no doubt many more.
Also a Migrant Hawker dragonfly seen at Little Woolden Moss NR
070923 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
5 Red Admiral
1 Small Tortoiseshell
6 Speckled Wood
70 Common Darter
80 Black Darter
060923
Chat Moss am
1 Weasel
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
90 Common Darter
120 Black Darter
7 Southern Hawker
7 Speckled Wood Butterflies
3 Red Admiral
2 Emperor Dragonfly (mating)
1 Comma
Also a Migrant Hawker dragonfly seen at Little Woolden Moss NR
040923 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Migrant Hawker
7 Southern Hawker
9 Speckled Wood Butterfly
1 Emerald Damselfly
45 Common Darter
90+ Black Darter
010923 am
Little Woolden Moss
6 Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
1 Southern Hawker
3 Red Admiral
40+ Small White Butterfly
300823 am
Chat Moss
80+ Black Darter
4 Speckled Wood Butterfly.
6 Common Darter
1 Brimstone Butterfly
290823 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Southern Hawker
8 Common Darter
60+ Black Darter
6 Speckled Wood Butterfly
2 Red Admiral
Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar
270823 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Red Admiral Butterfly
2 Peacock Butterfly
1 Common Darter
1 Painted Lady Butterfly
260823 am
Chat Moss
60 Black Darter
6 Speckled Wood Butterfly
1 Common Blue Butterfly
1 Emerald Damselfly
250823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
2 Emerald Damselfly
75 Black Darter
4 Red Admiral
1 Smooth Newt
230823 am
Little Wooden Moss
40 Small White Butterfly
1 Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
6 Large White Butterfly
A Smooth Newt was a new species for me on the mosses.
210823
Little Woolden Moss
30 Large White Butterfly
2 Red Admiral
200823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
30 Black Darter
4 Speckled Wood Butterfly
6 Common Darter
1 Red Admiral Butterfly
190823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
70 Black Darter
7 Common Blue Butterfly
4 Common Darter
160823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Southern Hawker
5 Common Darter
25 Black Darter
1 Speckled Wood Butterfly
150823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
2 Common Blue Butterfly
40 Black Darter
6 Common Darter
1 Brimstone.
110823 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
5 Common Blue Butterfly
22 Black Darter
3 Emerald Damselfly
5 Gatekeeper.
070823
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Common Blue Butterfly
11 Peacock Butterfly
2 Red Admiral
1 Brown Hawker
1 Common Darter
6 Emerald Damselfly
22 Black Darter.
030823
Home Garden Irlam
5 Large White Butterfly
3 Holly Blue Butterfly
2 Red Admiral
1 Peacock Butterfly.
030823 am
Little Woolden Moss
9 Peacock Butterfly
6 Comma
10 Red Admiral
60 Plus Large White Butterfly on a Sunflower Rich Stewardship crop
010823
Chat Moss
1 Field Mouse which fitted the description of a 'Wee Sleekit Cowrin Tim'rous beastie' as it seemed not know where to hide...
020823
Home Garden Irlam
1 Brimstone
1 Holly Blue
4 Large White
1 Small White.
010823
Home Garden Irlam
1 Brown Hawker
1 Red Admiral
3 Large White Butterfly.
250723 1200-1355
Home Garden Irlam
5 Peacock Butterfly
2 Speckled Wood
6 Large White
2 Red Admiral
1 Small white
3 Holly Blue
1 Southern Hawker
3 Grasshopper.
c10 Purple Hairstreaks in flitting between Oak trees
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Peacock
7 Speckled Wood
2 Red Admiral
1 Comma
1 Gatekeeper.
Female short-winged conehead on fence post at Lancs WT Little Woolden Moss this PM
290723 Chat Moss
2 Brimstone
6 Meadow Brown
2 Peacock
2 Southern Hawker
1 Common Darter
11 Gatekeeper
12 Black Darter
3 Peacock
2 Red Admiral
280723 Little Woolden Moss
8 Peacock Butterfly
3 Small Tortoiseshell
3 Red Admiral
60 + Large White Butterfly
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
3 Emperor Dragonfly
30 + Black Darter
1 Brown Hawker
20 + Emerald Damselfly
9 Peacock
1 Common Blue Butterfly
6 Red Admiral
4 Comma.
50 + Field Grasshopper...
250723 Carbon Landscape Dragonfly Survey along the Glaze near Little Woolden Hall
33 Banded Demoiselle...Male
26 Banded Demoiselle...Female
3 Black Darter
1 Comma
1 Common Blue Butterfly
1 Peacock Butterfly
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
36 Black Darter...recently emerged
6 Gatekeeper
18 Peacock Butterfly
1 Comma
4 Emerald Damselfly
1 Small Tortoiseshell.
13 Common Stinkhorn - 1 newly emerged covered in flies, another past its best plus a further 9 eggs at various stages of development.
Moths:
1 Yellow Shell
1 Shaded Broad-bar
4 Common Carpet
A few fungi starting to appear in the wet conditions:
2 Tawny Grisette
1 Common Stinkhorn egg
Round Leaved Sundews in flower.
Dragonflies:
Numerous Black Darter have emerged - mostly females
Black-tailed Skimmers in good numbers
2 Emperor dragonflies
Moths:
Clouded Border
Shaded Broad Bar
Common Carpet
Common White Wave
Marbled Whitespot
Hedya salicella
Butterflies:
2 Red Admiral
2 Peacock caterpillars crawling across the road
Beetles:
Common Red Soldier Beetle
1 Ringlet butterfly - A new butterfly species for me on the mosses
1 Fox - male
5 Black-tailed Skimmer dragonflies
1 Noctule Bat over the reserve this evening 21/6/23
Butterflies :1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1m Orange Tip and 3 Large Whites.
Odonata: Numerous Large Red Damselflies and 5 Four-spotted Chasers.
Butterflies:
1 Holly Blue
10 Orange Tip
1 Peacock
1 Small Tortoiseshell
Odonata:
5 Four-spotted Chaser
Numerous Large Red Damselfly
Late post for 10/5/23
1 Wood Mouse ran across the road
Fox seen along eastern perimeter fence of Barton Airport.
Good numbers of Orange Tip butterflies on the wing. At least 26 counted
Also
1 Brimstone
3 Peacock
5 Green-veined White
1 Red Damselfly
Common lizard on path in Little Woolden Moss NR.
A small cluster of slightly past their best Pestle Puffballs.