Tales of the Riverbank

Dispersal is taking place so I'm not getting any sightings, but when I leave a camera up, the voles are there.  

  Grey seals on a distant shore. The egg of a dogfish, ray or skate, sometimes called a mermaid's purse. It takes about 45 minutes to wa...

  This is the Clifden Nonpareil, sometimes described as the "holy grail" of moth trapping. I never thought I'd see one, so I w...

Three Common Blues. Below, lizards at Pant and Prees Heath. Above, Painted Lady. Below, a Wall. Redstart and a heron. Caterpillar of an Empe...

  Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar A fallow doe, in a wildlife park in Oxfordshire. One of the Hawkers, possibly Southern. Two new species for...

Banded demoiselles. Below, a red kite. Edgeley Road voles. Small copper butterfly and male Emerald damselfly. Baby common lizard and Silver ...

Mr and Ms whinchat - a new species for me. Purple hairstreak butterfly, unusually in the grass (they're normally in oak trees) Below, gr...