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Monday 24th Aug. Harrop Edge.

Peacock Butterfly. 2
Speckled Wood. 1

Roger.

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Sunday 9th August. Mottram Road.

Red Admiral and Peacock Butterfly.

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Single Mayfly dancing in the evening sun on the Huddersfield canal yesterday evening 



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Saturday 11th April. Stalybridge. Mottram Road.

Orange-tip.

Found it hard to contain my excitement .... I'm on a roll !!

Roger.

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Wednesday 8th April. Stalybridge. Mottram Road.

Two Comma sunning themselves on my house wall @ 15.30 hrs ... there was one on Monday.

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Sunday 5th April 2020, 10.00am.

Pennine Bridleway, Carrbrook.

The colony of Heather Plasterer Bees were becoming active as the morning warmed up.
My first butterflies of 2020 in the form of two each of Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell.

I have attached an image of a Mining Bee which I have identified as an Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa), but I am happy to be corrected by anyone more expert than myself. The abdomen isnt ginger enough for a Tawny Mining Bee. The pollen baskets were heaving, as the bee took the protein source into its burrow.


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Sunday 22nd March 2020, 9.30 - 11.00am.

Pennine Bridleway, Carrbrook to Millbrook.

A thriving colony of Plasterer Bees, presumably Heather Plasterers (Colletes succinctus), given the location, at the edge of the moor. Poor images attached. Hypnotic to watch.
1 Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) also seen

Plenty of White- and Buff-tailed Bumblebee queens looking for nest sites this week, and a Tree Bumblebee queen in the garden yesterday.

A Stoat in the garden of Winter Hill Farm may not be good news for the Lapwing in the adjacent fields.

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David Walsh wrote:

One of the Trembling Wing flies on our kitchen worktop, this morning. Palloptera muliebris, sometimes known as the Looped Flutter Fly.

Although usually associated with damp places, a little research reveals that it is thought that it is also a natural predator of carpet beetles.

With reference to the conversation between Steve Suttill and Andy Bissett and insect recording, my main obstacle is the actual identification of flies, bugs, and beetles. My butterfly records go directly to Peter Hardy, the County Recorder, and Moths and insects I can identify to GMLRC, but many are not submitted simply because I cannot identify them, due to lack of photographic evidence. It is very frustrating.





Yes, David, I struggle to ID many, many insects and have found that the only way is to photograph them (or capture them, I suppose?). There's a very good hoverfly group on Facebook which acts as part of the national recording scheme (as does the dragonfly Facebook group). Even if you can't get good photos yourself, you can learn a lot from looking at other recorders' pictures.

Nice fly, by the way!

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David Walsh


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One of the Trembling Wing flies on our kitchen worktop, this morning. Palloptera muliebris, sometimes known as the Looped Flutter Fly.

Although usually associated with damp places, a little research reveals that it is thought that it is also a natural predator of carpet beetles.

With reference to the conversation between Steve Suttill and Andy Bissett and insect recording, my main obstacle is the actual identification of flies, bugs, and beetles. My butterfly records go directly to Peter Hardy, the County Recorder, and Moths and insects I can identify to GMLRC, but many are not submitted simply because I cannot identify them, due to lack of photographic evidence. It is very frustrating.




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Thursday 1st August 2019.

Pennine Bridleway, Carrbrook, butterflies.

24 Gatekeeper
2 Meadow Brown
7 Speckled Wood
4 Ringlet
1 Small Heath
6 Green-veined White
3 Small White
1 Peacock
1 Painted Lady

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Sunday 7th July, morning.

Pennine Bridleway, Carrbrook, butterflies.

A decent spread of species, but low numbers, the most numerous being 6 Ringlet.

Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Speckled Wood
Large Skipper
Painted Lady

A single each of Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral were in the garden, on Huddersfield Road.




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Sunday 21st April 2019, 9.30 - 11.45am.

Pennine Bridleway, Carrbrook, Butterflies.

Another Green Hairstreak, this time high up on the moor above the Bridleway
3 Orange Tip
3 Green-veined White
2 Speckled Wood
4 Peacock
1 Small Tortoiseshell

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A Comma butterfly was in the garden (Huddersfield Road) yesterday.

Several queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees around

Honey bees out in force, working crocus mainly. This is a bad time of year for nectar sources, and the current warm spell means the workers are expending large amounts of energy, with little to forage on. Plenty of pollen around in the form of catkins, but that provides protein for larvae, not energy for adults, so the hives need feeding in the form of sugar syrup, honey, or fondant.

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Thursday 18th October 2018.

Andy Bissitt's posts have just reminded me:

A Small Copper fluttered onto Wild Bank SBI, on the Hobson Moor side of the hill, at 10.00am. My first ever record here.

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Sunday 2nd September 2018, 2.00pm.

A male Holly Blue butterfly in the garden (Huddersfield Road), was a Stalybridge first for me.

Plenty of Fox Moth caterpillars on the moors at present, and the Plasterer Bee colony near Hobson Moor was still going strong this morning.

A single Small Tortoiseshell butterfly at Higher Swineshaw yesterday was my first sighting for months, in what has been a quiet year personally, for Vanessids.

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Thursday 9th August 2018, 12.30pm

A colony of Plasterer Bees, numbering approximately 1500 burrows, along a 60 yard stretch of sandy banking created by tractor tyres, on the Hobson Moor side of Wild Bank.

Given the location, next to a heather moor, I would guess at Colletes succinctus as a species.

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Sunday 5th November 2017, 1.30pm

Huddersfield Road

Red Admiral feeding in the garden, just now.

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Sunday 15th October 2017

Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge.

A very ragged Comma butterfly struggling its way through the garden was unusual.

Moth night 2017.

Several sessions of skulking around the ivy flowers in the dark over the past couple of nights yielded not a single moth. Plenty of Bats though

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Sunday 28th August 2017, 3.00pm

A male Common Blue butterfly flew through the garden. Very unusual for the area.

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Wednesday 2nd August.

Harrop Edge, on track verges near Cheetham Fold Farm (kennels).

c 13 Red Admiral feeding on thistles.

Roger.

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Tuesday 20th September 2016, 7.15 - 8.00pm

Harrop Edge

Noctule bat
Pipistrelle species
Dog Fox being harassed by what sounded like a raptor, after dark, in one of the quarries.

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Sunday 18th Sept. 17.00 hrs.

Weasel ran across Hobson Moor Road.

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Thursday 21st July 2016

Female Ghost Moth in Howard Street, Millbrook this evening

Ringlet butterfly in the garden this afternoon

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Saturday 4th June 2016

Painted Lady butterfly taking nectar in the garden, Huddersfield Road

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Wednesday 9th December 2015, 2.00pm

River Tame, Bayley Street bridge

1 Mink, hunting along the wall on the northern side of the river.

I've reported this on the form on the "Other Wildlife" section, which seems a bit "Wigancentric". Is it still current, or do I need to log the sighting somewhere else?

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Saturday Nov 14th.

Track up to Moorside Farm off Hobson Moor Rd.

Scleroderma citrinum, commonly known as the common earthball or pigskin poison puffball (I like the latter !).

Roger.



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Thursday 8th October 2015. Walkerwood Dam A few Speckled Wood Butterflies flying around the brambles. Roger.



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Thanks for reminding me, Roger

Addition to yesterday's sightings - Gooseberry Sawfly (Nematus ribesii) - abundant cry

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Whilst gooseberry picking
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What !!! I'd have kept that quiet. blankstare
Roger.

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Sunday 12th July 2015

Whilst gooseberry picking, in the garden, Huddersfield Road.

Butterflies

1 Ringlet , a Stalybridge first for me.
1 Speckled Wood
1 Small Tortoiseshell

1 Large Yellow Underwing moth

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Thursday 2nd July 2015

Harridge, Millbrook

10+ Speckled Wood
3 Small Heath
2 Cinnabar moths

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Weds April 22nd.

Stanley Square.

10+ Small Tortoiseshell.

Roger.

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Tues April 7th.

Carrbrook area.

Red Admiral 2
Peacock Butterfly .... numerous ..... I lost count in the high twenties.

t'Harridge.

Flock of around 20 Jackdaw mobbing a large male Stoat .... really chased it round the stones until it managed to find cover.

Walkerwood dam.

Lot of Toads on the roadway ..... many in embrace.

Spent twenty minutes giving a few a lift onto the res as one or two had already met a sticky end.
Hope to receive my reward in Heaven.

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Mon 6th April. Heyheads.

2 Small tortoiseshell.

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Tuesday Aug 16th.

Track up to Moorside Farm off Hobson Moor Rd.

Red Admiral & Speckled Wood butterflies ...... seemed to favour the shade of the oaks that grow out of the rhododendrons or could be the ivy flowers that attract them ?
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Harrop Edge.

Common Darters (M&F) plentiful around the small ponds in the quarry.

Roger.

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Friday Aug 15th. 15.30 hrs.

Stalybridge.

Red Admiral on canal tow-path at side of Tescos.

Roger.

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Tuesday 6th August. 22.30 hrs.

Stalybridge. Tame Street.

Large Yellow Underwing.

Roger.

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Friday 25th July. 04.30 hrs.

Stalybridge. Tame St. Council Vehicle Yard.

3 splendid specimens of Rattus Norvegicus having an early morning acrobatic session.
Kicked off by jumping out of a black bag as it was being thrown in a skip !

Surprising how 12oz rodents can put a spring in the step of several 14st+ HGV drivers ....... and by that I don't mean they were rushing for a closer look ??

Roger.



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Sunday 6th July 2014

Two strange sightings from earlier

1 Brown Rat in the top of a Goat Willow tree??? Mistook it for a bald-tailed squirrel initially (that's a description, not the name of a species)

1 Grey Squirrel comfortably curled up inside a squirrel-proof peanut feeder!!!

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Sunday 22nd June 2014, 8.30pm

Back of Brushes Rangers football pitch

20+ Six-spot Burnet moths, recently emerged, on grass stems
4 Meadow Brown butterflies
1 Small Heath butterfly
1 Silver Ground Carpet Moth

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Sunday 22nd June 2014, 9 am

1 Elephant Hawk Moth roosting in the heather at Wild Bank - what a stunning insect!
First Meadow Browns of the year around Walkerwood Dam

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A few sightings over the past week or so around Brushes Valley

Butterflies:

Speckled Wood abundant everywhere
Small Heath common
Green-veined White
Small White
Large White
Green Hairstreak at Flaxfield
Small Copper at Flaxfield
Large Skipper at Lower Swineshaw
Common Blue at Lower Swineshaw
Sadly, the end of the Orange-tips for another year

Moths:

Cinnabar moths abundant - seems a bumper year!
Chimney Sweeper abundant at Flaxfield
Common Carpet
Silver-ground Carpet
Common Heath
Ghost Moth at Huddersfield Road

Flowers:

Fragrant Orchid coming into flower
Marsh Orchid along the overflow of Walkerwood Reservoir

-- Edited by David Walsh on Sunday 22nd of June 2014 01:26:31 AM

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Saturday 4th January 2014, 9.00am

3 roe deer high up on Wild Bank Moor, towards Cock Knarr

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Saturday 23rd November 2013, 11.50AM

2 roe deer in marshy scrub behind Range House, Flaxfield

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Thursday 21st November 2013, 8.45am

Roe Deer moving through the trees on the hill just south of Walkerwood Dam

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At dusk today from Walkerwood Dam

Roe Deer low down on Harridge in field next to the reservoir

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Saturday 19th October 2013, 10.00AM

Roe Deer ran down from rear of Range House across Brushes Road and into country park

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A lot of harlequin ladybirds in Stalybridge town centre today

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Tame St.

Seem to have a couple of incomers to the local fox population (always a few living under the council yards porta-cabins).

These are two young vixens, but the odd thing is that one is very light, like a pale reddish blonde.
First time I noticed it I thought it was a ginger cat under the street lights.

Probably some old dog fox will be looking forward to January.

Roger.

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Tuesday 27th August 2013, dusk

Female roe deer in scrub behind Range House "barking" loudly

Brown Hare in field in front of Range House

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