Tales of the Riverbank

shaded broad bar moth gatekeeper butterfly purple hairstreak water shrew silver studded blue  

  raft spider cotton grass on Whixall Moss two lizards on Prees Heath feeding station plus droppings I met a couple of men today who told me...

  slow worm in the bracken peacock butterfly first tiger beetle of the year

  Comma and Small White Silver Studded Blues Small Copper Gatekeeper Purple Hairstreak Holly Blue Gatekeepers Comma Common lizard

  There are three lizards in the photo above. Can you spot them?

  Silver Studded Blue? This bottom photo shows (I think) a juvenile, going by the dark tail. The picture above it is of a heavily gravid fem...

Toadpoles in the pond at Prees Heath. Treecreeper (seen at Bridges) and a Prees Heath yellowhammer. I was lucky enough to meet a butterfly e...