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Ian Boote


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Large lump of Sweet Violet in flower today. Aromatic hairy plant with blunt sepials

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lunch time

5 Migrant Hawker and a pair of mating Common Darter dragonflies.

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2 brimstone butterfly, good numbers speckled wood butterfly.

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Cut leaved teasel near Ramsdale Hide this W/E.

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Lots of Banded Demoiselles by the concrete bridge over the inlet to the flash at the western end today; and yes, they're the only ones I can, or indeed can be bothered to, identify!

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1 Comma Butterfly early evening

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good sized terrapin sunning itself on rocks seen from ramsdales hide.

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2 brimstone butterfly near teal hide.

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Two foxes on the spit early on the morning of the 24/5/14. Also a roe buck and doe from Edmonton hide.

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whilst sat on the banks of the ruck watching the black terns a weasel ran right in front of me smile

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Good to see many Butterflies out at the weekend
Brimstone-in fairly good numbers-20+(mainly north bank to the west end)
Small Tortoiseshell-5
Peacock-c10
Comma-4
Only ever seen a few of Clouded yellows at the flash and never before June as far as I can remember, as they are migrants that to the UK.
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-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Monday 31st of March 2014 09:46:38 PM

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Jon Bowen wrote:

correction it was a Clouded Yellow


Jon Bowen wrote:

Brimstone Butterfly and very raggy Peacock near Tom Edmondson around midday

-- Edited by Jon Bowen on Sunday 30th of March 2014 09:10:47 PM





Surely you were right first time Jon hmm

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correction it was a Clouded Yellow


Jon Bowen wrote:

Brimstone Butterfly and very raggy Peacock near Tom Edmondson around midday

-- Edited by Jon Bowen on Sunday 30th of March 2014 09:10:47 PM




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Brimstone Butterfly and very raggy Peacock near Tom Edmondson around midday

-- Edited by Jon Bowen on Sunday 30th of March 2014 09:10:47 PM

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1 mink near front of horrocks hide

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Early Brimstone Butterflies out among the birch trees to the west edge of Rammies ruck.

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Amazing views of a Weasel from Bunting Hide. It was flowing in between the stones and sticks on the ground and in and out of small holes like quicksilver.

Photo-opps second to none and I am camera-less at present!! cry

Thankfully there was another birder there clicking away - should be some cracking pics there. smile

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Brimstone - flying near to canal, the latest ever for me
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17th November
1 Migrant Hawker Dragonfly by the canal (latest I can remember)

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10.00a.m. to 12.30p.m. very hot
Lots of butterflies about especially between Ramsden's ruck and canal.
Large Whites
Small Whites
Green-veined Whites
Brimstones
Gatekeepers
Meadow Browns
Large Skippers
Small Skippers
Speckled Wood
Small Tortoiseshell
Peacock

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Male and female Broad-Bodied Chaser from Tom Edmondson Hide this afternoon, the female ovipositing

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Pennington Flash (other wildlife)

11.30a.m.

A Weasel ran across the path in front of me between Rammie hide and the canal where all the
paths meet.

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09.30-11.30

4 Meadow Brown, 1 Common Blue & 1 Small Skipper butterflies on the

meadow (North West corner)

A smallish dark butterfly fluttering along the bottom of an hedgerow on the

South East corner of the park fitted the description of a Ringlet. From

what I've read online since these butterflies are rare in GM. However, on

viewing quite a few good internet photos of them since I'm convinced

now it was a Ringlet. Also1 Southern Hawker dragonfly was near the

Teal hide




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Half a dozen Noctule bats over the junction of Sandy and Green Lane (by the sailing club) around 9.15pm on Saturday night.

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From Saturday;

St Georges Mushrooms (number of locations around the flash)
Hemlock (in front of bunting hide)
Hemlock Water-dropwort (a few locations)
Orange-tip (male)

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3 species off butterflies seen on my walk around..

speckled wood
common blue
orange tip

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2 small weasels in the feeding station ( Bunting hide ) this afternoon along with the usual squirrels

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Single Small Tortoiseshell butterfly today.

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Sunday 30 Oct pm with Tony Darby

A splendid Giant Puffball visible through a hedge in a field on the way to the East Bay to twitch the Red-crested Pochard. It was literally bigger than a football!

-- Edited by Tim Wilcox on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 01:43:02 PM

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