Butterflies Too

Small Copper

darter

Meadow Brown

Silver Y moth

female yellowhammer

Small Skipper

Red Admiral

Marbled White

Above: water vole latrine with new, old and trampled droppings. Below, two sizes of droppings suggesting a juvenile and an adult vole.

shaded broad bar moth

gatekeeper butterfly

purple hairstreak

water shrew

silver studded blue

 

Voles Compared to Rats

 

Rats: greyer, much pointier nose, more prominent ears, white feet.

Moth Highlights This Year So Far

 

Poplar Hawk

Lunar Marbled Brown

Lilac Beauty

Eyed Hawk

Scorched

Emerald

Pine Beauty

Pebble Hook Tip

Brindled Beauty

Skylarks etc