Wednesday, 25 June 2014
A SPIKY CATERPILLAR
From my young days with a younger brother and if memory serves me well this distant, from me, caterpillar may well be a Peacock. I am sure spikes and nettles rings bells of Peacocks? Probably Small Tortoiseshells?! LOL!
A GOLDEN COLOURED DRAGONFLY
A very peculiar coloured Dragonfly, not Damselfly because it holds it wings out and that is one difference between the two.
Probably a female Darter of some sort and there are Common Darters in the area. This is at Cottonmill Stream which is a welll known Dragonfly sanctuary. Not as many as the authorites would have you believe, not even close but I have so far seen three or four large Dragonflies of the Hawker group (Brown, err Migrants last year and the other looking like that one, Emperor), Banded Demoiselles are always in large and impressive numbers too. Also seen Red Eyed Damselflies and pictured them but rubbish. Hopefully this year some good and sharp shots.
Hairy Legged Damsels ... errrr ... or was it White Legged Damselflies?! Lol!
Probably a female Darter of some sort and there are Common Darters in the area. This is at Cottonmill Stream which is a welll known Dragonfly sanctuary. Not as many as the authorites would have you believe, not even close but I have so far seen three or four large Dragonflies of the Hawker group (Brown, err Migrants last year and the other looking like that one, Emperor), Banded Demoiselles are always in large and impressive numbers too. Also seen Red Eyed Damselflies and pictured them but rubbish. Hopefully this year some good and sharp shots.
Hairy Legged Damsels ... errrr ... or was it White Legged Damselflies?! Lol!
BEE ORCHIDS 2014
Now there did not seem to be many of these about, but I have to go back and double check a few things!
Last year the surrounding plants were a great deal lower than they are this year and I cannot emphasize this enough! So I do not know if I just cannot see the others, which might be why I have not found them previously, or much more likely that the excessive and constant Winter, Spring and early Summer rain has allowed the normal plants to block out the light from the Orchids?
There was one Bee Orchid, shown in one of the videos, which was much taller than the others and all of them were much taller than the ones I saw last year.
Bee Orchids Patch One
A nice example of a Bee Orchid in Patch One
Bee Orchids Patch Two
Last year the surrounding plants were a great deal lower than they are this year and I cannot emphasize this enough! So I do not know if I just cannot see the others, which might be why I have not found them previously, or much more likely that the excessive and constant Winter, Spring and early Summer rain has allowed the normal plants to block out the light from the Orchids?
There was one Bee Orchid, shown in one of the videos, which was much taller than the others and all of them were much taller than the ones I saw last year.
Bee Orchids Patch One
A nice example of a Bee Orchid in Patch One
Bee Orchids Patch Two
THE RED EARED ALIEN
Well there is an alien in the vicinity down at the cotton mill!
Not spotted by me previously a Red Eared Terrapin of the North American Clemmys ... errrr or is that Macroclemmys genus. Sometimes going under the silly name of Red Eared Sliders no doubt called by children in America because they look like they are sliding down ramps into water?
Oh wait or have I got this correct?
I filmed two of these four miles apart and one of them I know and have posted films and photos of it previously. One I have not, lol.
Not spotted by me previously a Red Eared Terrapin of the North American Clemmys ... errrr or is that Macroclemmys genus. Sometimes going under the silly name of Red Eared Sliders no doubt called by children in America because they look like they are sliding down ramps into water?
Oh wait or have I got this correct?
I filmed two of these four miles apart and one of them I know and have posted films and photos of it previously. One I have not, lol.
A PAIR OF PYRAMIDAL ORCHIDS
Now whereas the numbers of Bee Orchids are vastly reduced, POSSIBLY, compared to last year the numbers of Anacamptis are only slightly reduced.
So doing a running year by year study of the local British Orchids here is the site of the Pyramidal Orchids, which is site 1 of course as its the only one! Well only one I have found thus far!
So doing a running year by year study of the local British Orchids here is the site of the Pyramidal Orchids, which is site 1 of course as its the only one! Well only one I have found thus far!
A DEAD GRASS SNAKE
This one was at Cottonmill Stream and as soon as I looked down and despite it being upside down and torn apart at both ends and missing a head that this was a young Grass Snake, Natrix ummm natrix helveticus? Cannot be bothered to look it up and the memory not working as it should lol, damn this Fibrofog malarkey!
Have to keep an eye out for these and I think an early morning raid, well camp out in reality, is in order to get more on these?
Have to keep an eye out for these and I think an early morning raid, well camp out in reality, is in order to get more on these?
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