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.

  

Croft Pascoe and Windmill Farm.

SOUTHERN HAWKER

CLOUDED YELLOW

CLOUDED YELLOW

GRAYLING

GRAYLING

WALL BROWN

BLACK-TAILED SKIMMER

COMMON DARTER



COMMON HAWKER, EATING PREY.

We went to Croft Pascoe plantation at the week-end and found several of the big Hawkers. They kept landing on our backs which made Sue very nervous even though she loves Dragonflies.

We also saw our first Graylings of the year, one of which had a lot of white in it.

Afterwards we went on to Windmill Farm and saw 3 or 4 Clouded Yellow Butterflies,

again our first for the year.

Birds, Butterflies and Bugs.

Just a few bits from the last week or so. Mostly Butterflies and Bugs, (it's that time of year again). The Peregrine was taken at an undisclosed site on the coast.

This 24-spot Ladybird is also known as the Hairy Ladybird.

In search of Dragons

We went to Ventongimps NR for the first time on Friday and were not disappointed. It is a great place for Dragonflies etc, with a couple of great ponds and heathland. One of the ponds was created when a WW2 Bomber was discovered and excavated.

The Grayling were taken in the woods at Croft Pascoe, on The Lizard, as was the Wall Brown.

We have never seen them there before and they kept landing on us and the 'scope. In the first picture the wings are open slightly showing the rarely seen splash of colour.