Abbey Meadows

Abbey Meadows

Friday 26 July 2013

Mothing



Yarrow Plume


Garden Tiger


Honeysuckle Moth


Tawny-speckled Pug


Water Veneer


Wormwood Pug


Aethes rubigana

Moth post as lately I've been doing little else apart from work. The top 2 pics were taken at Ulgham, there were 9 in total and the others were from my garden trap. In 2 trapping sessions I have trapped 135 Water Veneers.

Thursday 11 July 2013

Big numbers of Widdrington


Narrow bordered five-spotted Burnet


Common White Wave


Straw Dot


One of three spider 'tents'


Brown China Mark


Elephant Hawkmoth

At Widdrington tip yesterday there were huge numbers of insects on the wing. The most notable numbers were c650 Ringlet butterflies, c280 Meadows Brown, 260 Small Skipper, 3 Large Skipper, 28 Common Blue, 168 Narrow bordered 5-spot Burnet, 234 Straw dot, 171 Shaded Broad-bar and singles of Common White Wave and Garden Tiger moth.
2 Juvenile Cuckoos were sitting in seperate Alder trees being fed by Meadow Pipits. 
Some pics above from Widdrington and a couple of moths from my garden trap.

Tuesday 2 July 2013

Wark Forest



Lesser Twayblade


Heath spotted Orchid


Great Sundew


Female Norther Eggar


Satyr Pug


Mares-tail


Northern Eggar?


Wood Tiger?


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Annual trek across the border mires looking for plants and other wildlife. Very cool, windy with plenty of showers but a good selection of species. The target in these mires is Great Sundew and we counted over 500 on one of the mires. A new species was Lesser Twayblade, 7 plants found and a nice selection of moths and caterpillars.