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Bernard McGurrin


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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,

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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Fox above diggle flash @17-10

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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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.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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5 grey squirrel gathering nuts etc,

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Bernard McGurrin


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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

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Bernard McGurrin


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Weasel on edge of new road @09-25,

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Bernard McGurrin


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2 field vole across path through C8 field.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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brief sighting of fox close to diggle flash late afternoon.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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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.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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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,

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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@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.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Weasel on path around fir tree flash

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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Shrew playing dead on path near diggle flash.

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Bernard McGurrin


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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.

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Bernard McGurrin


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fox just above diggle flash@ 20-50pm

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

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Bernard McGurrin


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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.

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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Bernard McGurrin


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

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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.

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1 fox at the top of C5 this morning

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Bernard McGurrin


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weasel ran across concrete road this morning.

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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

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

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Bernard McGurrin


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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 ?)

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Bernard McGurrin


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Evening stroll
Comma butterfly, brimstone moth.

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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.

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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,

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Bernard McGurrin


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Largish toad near old anglers car park

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

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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,

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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.

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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.

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