I was very surprised to see a butterfly on brambles I didn't get a close look but from a distance it looked like a peacock,

Fox on anglers car park @Diggle flash@06-35

Fox seen twice this morning first @06-55 then @ 07-30 both times in the same area above diggle flash.

Fox above diggle flash @17-10

fox strolling along the path around diggle flash @08-59

spent a pleasant 5mins watching 2 grey squirrels in trees, not everybodies cup of tea but their acrobatics and branch leaping are pretty amazing at times.

2 shrew ran across path in field,
Last nights fox seems to have found the dead bream that was beside the flash.

Late evening dog walk Fox on path near diggle flash approach 22-30

5 grey squirrel gathering nuts etc,

Wet and bedraggled fox hugging the fence line behind diggle flash,
Although if foxes had a site like this its report would probably read soaking wet and bedraggled human idiot with equally wet and bedraggled domestic cannine,

-- Edited by Bernard McGurrin on Friday 19th of December 2014 04:40:22 PM

Weasel on edge of new road @09-25,

2 field vole across path through C8 field.

quite a lot of grey squirrel activity this morning, probably drafting in extra supplies for the predicted bad weather.

Weasel ran across road to nowhere @09-31 this morning,

Fox on path above diggle flash @21-15 this evening,

weasel crossed path in middle of C8 field, 1 shrew much further down.

brief view of fox near bottom of rucks, 1 brown rat, several squirrel and several rabbit,

brief sighting of fox close to diggle flash late afternoon.

brief sighting of a fox in the undergrowth, first for quite a while.

brown rat ran across road to nowhere followed seconds later by a weasel.

Weasel on path leading to diggle flash,2 grey squirrel,

Weasel carrying what looked like a mouse ran across the road to nowhere,2 squirrel in trees,unidentified butterfly quite high could only make shape not colour.

decent sized toad toddling across new road, large sized rat also crossed.

a first for me, grey squirrel swimming from island to bank near car park at fir tree flash, can't recall ever seeing one swim before al though i was aware they were capable swimmers,

dead shrew on path, 4 squirrel under the horse chestnut trees presumably collecting conkers,

@17-20 2 weasel running back and forth across the new road,
Yesterday evening a large caterpillar was on path around diggle flash,pretty sure it was a drinker moth caterpillar.

Dead shrew on path around diggle flash,good numbers speckled wood and small white butterfly's,3squirrel, 6 rabbit,

Weasel on path around fir tree flash

weasel ran across the path running parallel with new road, 1 common blue and good numbers of speckled wood butterfly,

Shrew playing dead on path near diggle flash.

Morning dog walk
5 common blue butterfly, several speckled wood and white butterfly, plenty of very small blue damselfly look like a fresh hatch, several small red damselfly.

fox just above diggle flash@ 20-50pm

2 bats over path above diggle flash @ 20-45,

morning dog walk
2 squirrel, 9 rabbit, 3 common blue butterfly, several speckled wood and small white butterfly, plenty of dragonfly not sure of all species but one in particular looked like it was crossed with a sea king helicopter.

Fox on old anglers car park @21-05, juvenile smooth newt I think sandy brown colour no spots, on path near ditch, 2 bats.

field vole darted across path around diggle flash, several cinnabar moth caterpillar, quite a few rabbits this morning,

quite a few Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar, as Mike's post earlier this week lots of Alder Leaf Beetle (both larvae & beetle), noticed these larvae 2 years ago, but until Mike's post I didn't know what they were.

1 fox at the top of C5 this morning

weasel ran across concrete road this morning.

On site on Monday (Southern half) I noticed lots of grey alder were being devoured - looks like alder leaf beetle, which was once thought extinct apparently!

Mike S

opium poppy, yellow wort, kidney vetch, common century, eyebright, fairflax, white melilot.

morning dog walk
good numbers of butterfly and dragon/damselfly, including speckled wood, small tortoiseshell, meadow brown, large white,1 comma and 1 red admiral,
various dragonfly including 2 smallish red ones. 1 dead fieldmouse on path, 1 tiger striped caterpillar ( cinnabar ?)

Evening stroll
Comma butterfly, brimstone moth.

good numbers of butterfly mainly meadow brown and gatekeeper with a quite a few speckled wood, plenty blue damselfly and a few broad bodied chaser, loads of rabbit this morning.

2 six spot burnets moths this afternoon with a good selection of butterfly, speckled wood, small and large white, peacock, gatekeeper,2 red admiral, loads of meadow brown, several blue damselfly,

Largish toad near old anglers car park

2 fox this morning in C6 and 1 dead shrew on the path around fir tree flash.

am walk 3 broad bodied chasers plus 1 very green dragonfly can't find anything to match on google ?
pm walk what i think was a fox moth, 3 common field grasshopper showing well,

3 six spot burnet and 1 cinnabar moth, several small white, small tortoiseshell and large white butterfly, plenty of meadow brown, plenty of blue damselfly and a couple of chasers i think broad- bodied.

4 black caterpillar i think peacock ? 3 speckled wood butterfly, several small tortoiseshell and plenty of meadow brown, blue damselfly and several small frogs around diggle flash.