Getting a Little Bolder

 

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

The Lizards of Llanymynech

 

Grizzled Skipper

Orchid of some kind.

Brimstone butterfly

Saw more than ten common lizards today, of various sizes.

At Long Last, a Water Vole

Poor photo, but a useful record shot. Below, feeding.

Pebble Hook Tip and Pine Beauty moths.

 

 

slow worm in the bracken

peacock butterfly

first tiger beetle of the year

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.

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.

prints

feeding station

Below, two photos of droppings.

Below, a single dropping at the Wood Yard behind Tesco, plus a print.

Orange Tip butterfly

Meadow Pipit above, and below, a male Stonechat.

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.