Showing posts with label Common Blue Butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common Blue Butterfly. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Linacre - 11th August 2026

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 Today was my first visit to Linacre since the end of July (!). I was very pleased to meet a reader of this blog, in the car park. Hello to ...
Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Bodnant Gardens - 27th July 2026

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 On Monday, Jayne and I stopped off at the National Trust's Bodnant Gardens , on route to Anglesey. We had a walk around the site, and n...
Sunday, 31 May 2026

RSPB Frampton Marsh - 31st May 2026

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 Today, Jayne and I had a trip across to RSPB Frampton Marsh. We had a great walk around the reserve, adding three new species to the Year L...
Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Pleasley Pits - Butterflies and Dragonflies

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Yesterday, in the 32 degree heat (!), I decided to have a drive over to Pleasley Pit to try and see my first dragonflies of the year and a f...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Another new species for Linacre!

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 I've had a couple of 2-hour visits to Linacre this week and managed to record lots of insects, including a new species! The first walk,...
Monday, 31 July 2023

Warham Camp - 31st July 2023

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 Jayne and I went across the Warham Camp this afternoon. It was overcast, and spitting with rain, but we still managed to see a few species ...
Sunday, 5 June 2022

Linacre Insects - 3rd June 2022

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 The sun came out on Friday afternoon, so I popped down to Linacre in the hope of seeing some insects. The first ones I saw were Common Blue...
Thursday, 10 June 2021

Linacre Insects and WeBS - 13th June 2021

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This afternoon was warm and sunny with temperatures in the low 20s, so I decided to have a look around Linacre for some damselflies and othe...
Thursday, 23 July 2020

Silver-washed Fritillary

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In the last couple of years, I'd heard reports of Silver-washed Fritillary butterflies in Whitwell Woods, about half an hour away from ...
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Monday, 15 June 2020

Middleton Top - 13th June 2020

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Since lockdown eased, Jayne and I have decided to go and visit some places that we've drived past for years, but have never actually sto...
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Saturday, 6 June 2020

Lathkill Dale - 6th June 2020

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Jayne and I went for a walk along Lathkill Dale today. The weather wasn't great, with strong winds and lots of cloud, but we did get a f...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Seymour Ponds - 18th May 2020

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On Monday, I visited a set of ponds called Markham Vale or Seymour Ponds in Staveley, Chesterfield. It was my first visit to this site, afte...
Saturday, 31 August 2019

Linacre Insects

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I spent a few hours at Linacre over the last few days and recorded the following insects: Southern Hawker (1), Brown Hawker (3, including ...
Monday, 26 August 2019

Herring Gull EPM

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Jayne and I were in Llandudno over the weekend. Whilst there we spotted a Herring Gull with a colour ring, EPM. I recognised it straight aw...