Showing posts with label Gatekeeper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gatekeeper. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 July 2026

RSPB Old Moor Insects - 5th July 2026

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 On Saturday, Jayne and I drove across to RSPB Old Moor in the search of a new insect for the region, Norfolk Hawker . Unfortunately, we did...
Sunday, 27 July 2025

Big Moor Dragons - 26th July 2025

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Yesterday, Jayne and I had a walk up to Little Barbrook Reservoir on Big Moor. We went to look for dragonflies, and managed to see a couple ...
Sunday, 6 July 2025

Linacre 5th July 2025- A new Hoverfly!

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 I had 2 hours down at Linacre yesterday morning. It was 18 degrees and overcast, but a few sunny spells enticed some butterflies out. I als...
Friday, 4 July 2025

Butterfly Update

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 Over the last week or two I've been out and about looking for a few new summer butterflies. The first were seen at Barbrook Pools (form...
Saturday, 12 August 2023

Westleton Heath - 10th August 2023

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 On Thursday, I popped down to Westleton Heath to catch up with the last species I wanted to see whilst down in Suffolk, the Dartford Warble...

RSPB Minsmere - 9th August 2023

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 On Wednesday, Jayne and I had 3 hours at RSPB Minsmere . We got there just after 6am, and walked around the main scrape area, before finish...
Friday, 21 July 2023

Buzzard Breeding Success!

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 Over the years, I've heard of several reports of  Common Buzzards breeding at Linacre. Although I have seen small groups of birds in l...
Saturday, 15 July 2023

The Gulls are Back!!

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 Late this morning, I had a drive across to Rufford for the first visit since March, looking for the returning Black-headed Gulls . I was in...
Saturday, 1 July 2023

Yorkshire Black-winged Stilts

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 This year has seen a large influx of Black-winged Stilts , with at least 3 pairs so far known to be breeding (2 at RSPB Frampton Marsh) and...
Saturday, 16 July 2022

Silver-washed Fritillaries at Linacre!

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 Last year, I saw a photograph of a Silver-washed Fritillary that had been taken "near Linacre". Unfortunately, I wasn't able...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Lindrick Dale - 2nd July 2022

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On Saturday, Jayne and I had our annual trip to Lindrick Dale, near Worksop. It was about 20 degrees, with quite a lot of  cloud cover and a...
Sunday, 25 July 2021

White-letter and Purple Hairstreaks!!

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It was 22 degrees again today, so Jayne ad I had a walk around Linacre this afternoon. The top reservoir was closed off as the boardwalk is ...
Friday, 23 July 2021

Linacre Ringing - 18th July 2021

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Last Sunday I was down at Linacre for a mist netting session with Sorby Breck Ringing Group . It was our first session since May, and we man...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Linacre - 12th August 2020

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 The temperature was a cracking 27 degrees again today, so I decided to have a couple of hours down at Linacre to see which insects I could ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Linacre - 22nd July 2020

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I had a couple of hours at Linacre this afternoon. When I arrived at 12.30pm it was grey, overcast and just 17 degrees. I started down at th...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Baslow Edge- 19th July 2020

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Jayne and I had a walk from Curbar Gap up to Baslow Edge on Sunday. Bird wise, it was pretty quiet, with just the usual Meadow Pipit s and a...
Monday, 26 August 2019

LINACRE LIFER!!!

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It was about 20 degrees on Thursday, so I popped down to Linacre in the afternoon for 3 hours to see what was about. In the sun there were l...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Linacre Insects - 6th August 2019

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Yesterday morning I went down to Linacre to do the final check of the nestboxes (more of that in another post), and afterwards spent anothe...
Sunday, 4 August 2019

RSPB Dungeness

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Jayne and I had a trip around RSPB Dungeness on 1st August. We spent a couple of hours on the reserve, and saw some nice birds, insects and...