Tuesday 7 May 2024
Monday 6 May 2024
Green Hairstreaks, Voles and Various Moths
Pebble Hook Tip
Brindled Beauty
Angle Shades
Pine Beauty
Mullein moth
Herald
Oak Eggar moth caterpillar
Green Hairstreak butterfly
Nesting vole
Sunday 5 May 2024
The Lizards of Llanymynech
Grizzled Skipper
Orchid of some kind.
Brimstone butterfly
Saw more than ten common lizards today, of various sizes.
Saturday 4 May 2024
Sunday 28 April 2024
Saturday 27 April 2024
Hares and Owls
stonechats
barn owl taking home a bank vole
I hardly ever see hares, and when I do they're just brown blobs in the distance. So this young hare coming close to me was a real treat.
Sunday 21 April 2024
So What About the Voles?
The Staggsbrook at Edgeley Road has only recently subsided to its usual course. Up till now, it's been flooded. However, below are the water vole field signs that are beginning to appear.
Male reed bunting above and fledgeling thrush below.
Male linnet
A combination of building work at White Lion Meadow (Tesco car park), and horrendous rainfall, seems to have impacted on water vole appearances. But there are now the beginnings of signs on three sites, and I will continue to monitor those places and report any sightings.