Showing posts with label Breney Common. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breney Common. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 September 2020

BRENEY COMMON & BISSOE VALLEY.

WE HAVE BEEN OUT A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER 
THE WEEKEND, MOSTLY TO BISSOE VALLEY BUT 
ALSO TO BRENEY COMMON FOR BLACK DARTER.
THIS USE TO BE THE MOST RELIABLE SPOT FOR 
THEM BUT THEY ARE NOW FEW AND FAR BETWEEN 
SINCE ALL THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE THERE. 
WE ONLY FOUND 1 AFTER SEVERAL HOURS 
OF SEARCHING, SUCH A SHAME.


BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON HAWKER

COMMON HAWKER

GOLDEN-RINGED

GOLDEN-RINGED

KEELED SKIMMER

MIGRANT HAWKER

MIGRANT HAWKER

MIGRANT HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

 

Friday, 30 August 2019

BRENEY COMMON AND CROFT PASCOE

WE FINALLY GOT BLACK DARTER AT BRENEY COMMON, 
IT TOOK THREE VISITS BUT WAS WELL WORTH IT.
MOST OF THE REST WERE TAKEN AT CROFT PASCOE 
PLANTATION WHICH IS USUALLY BRILLIANT FOR HAWKERS
BUT HAD A VERY POOR SHOWING WHEN WE WERE THERE.


BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

COMMON DARTER
COMMON DARTER

ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH CATERPILLAR

EMERALD DAMSELFLY

EMPEROR eating a Moth

EMPEROR
GRAYLING
GRAYLING
LIZARD sp.
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER
I CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND ABOUT THE NEXT TWO.
ARE THEY COMMON OR MIGRANT?
THE COSTA APPEARS YELLOW, AS IN 
COMMON HAWKER BUT THE ABDOMEN DIPS 
AT THE END SO MAY BE MIGRANT HAWKER.
  








Tuesday, 30 July 2019

A VISIT TO BRENEY COMMON.

WE WENT TO BRENEY COMMON ON SUNDAY HOPING FOR 
BLACK DARTER BUT DIDN'T SEE ANY. THERE HAS BEEN A 
LOT OF WORK DONE THERE IN THE PAST COUPLE OF 
YEARS SO LET'S HOPE WE HAVEN'T LOST THEM FOR GOOD.
WE DID SEE HALF A DOZEN PURPLE HAIRSTREAK.

COMMON BLUE DAMSELFLY

COMMON BLUE

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

EMERALD DAMSELFLY

EMERALD DAMSELFLY

EMPEROR

GREEN-VEINED WHITE

KEELED SKIMMER

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK

SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY

SMALL COPPER

Thursday, 7 June 2018

MARSH FRITILLARY AT BRENEY COMMON.

YESTERDAY WE WENT UP TO BRENEY COMMON HOPING
 FOR MARSH FRITILLARY AND WERE NOT 
DISAPPOINTED, THEY WERE IN ABUNDANCE.
SUCH A PRETTY BUTTERFLY AND QUITE SCARCE 
SO TIMING IS EVERYTHING. OF COURSE YESTERDAY'S 
BRILLIANT SUNSHINE ALSO HELPED.











 ALSO A FEW SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARIES AROUND.