Postcard from North Wales

 

Water Vole Droppings

Black darter

Small Coppers

Water vole droppings are supposed not to be pointy-ended. However, not all voles read the textbook.

Speckled Wood

Rare Butterflies

Silver-washed Fritillary

Mystery Droppings

Edgeley Road water voles

Lots of beetles in this poo, but too big for hedgehog. Badger?

Red Admiral basks in the evening sun.

Into August

Small Copper above, Small Heath below.

Green-veined White butterfly.

 

Activity at Edgeley Road

 

Purple Hairstreak butterfly at Prees Heath. It seems to have been a bumper year for them, on that site at least.

White Lion Meadow (Tesco) vole.

Raft spiderlings seen on Whixall Moss.

The Big Butterfly Count 2023

 

Comma and Small White

Silver Studded Blues

Small Copper

Gatekeeper

Purple Hairstreak

Holly Blue

Gatekeepers

Comma

Common lizard