Late morning between Eagley Brook and John Street football field, Bromley Cross.

7 Small Skippers
5 Green-veined Whites
1 Small White
1 Small Tortoiseshell
1 Comma
20+ Gatekeepers
10+ Meadow Browns

2 Brown Hawkers
Azure/Common Blue damselflies

Bromley Cross stretch this morning (wind blowing straight through the valley keeping butterflies numbers down) :-
Numerous Large Skippers & Small Skippers, 2 Large Whites, 1 Small White, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Comma, numerous Meadow Browns.

Field Vole running along the path in front of me.

Not many birds, a couple of singing Dippers the highlight, so I turned my attention to fungi.

Birch Polypore
Blackening Brittlegill
Bleeding Broadleaf Crust
Bleeding Oak Crust
Candlesnuff
Charcoal Burner
Common Earthball & Scaly Earthball
Deceiver
Dryad's Saddle
Fairy Inkcap
Green Elfcup
Hairy Curtain Crust
Turkeytail
Yellow Swamp Britttlegill
+ a couple of unidentified species

3 Speckled Woods

The highlight along the Bromley Cross stretch this morning was a Southern Hawker. I have seen them at Bank Top before but not in this area. Azure damselflies at Cat Lodge.

Only butterflies were Large Skippers, Meadow Browns & Speckled Woods. Numerous Straw Dots, Nettle-taps, & Celypha lacunana. A Snout was in the woodland at the top of Little Brow. This is a species I do not normally see locally but I have even had a couple in my garden for the last couple of nights.

Bromley Cross to Bank Top this morning.

1 Common Frog
A few Silver-ground Carpets & 1 Common Wave
Bumble Bees :- Bombus hypnorum, Bombus lucorum, Bombus pascuorum, Bombus pratorum

1 Roe Deer, 4 Grey Squirrels, and 1 Rabbit.

Buck Roe Deer & mating Frogs at Bank Top Lodge.

One Roe Deer in the field behind Thornham Drive this morning

This morning between Eagley and Hall i'th Wood, 4 Roe Deer