After yesterdays washout, it was good to get out of the cottage this afternoon and have a leisurely walk around Church Ope Cove. Main highlight was watching a few Chalk Hill Blues along Penns Weare and The Cuttings Quarry.
Unfortunately and despite the warm sunny conditions, it was very windy and difficult to photograph any butterflies, as most were struggling to fly in the windy conditions.
Other highlights were a Common Whitethroat along the Mermaid Track and at the other end of the track closest to the old Mermaid Pub was a Pellucid Hoverfly.
Here are a few images from this afternoon:
Here are a few images from this afternoon:
Church Ope Cove
Over Penns Weare a Kestrel hovers over a Carrion Crow.
And the only "settled" Gatekeeper I found in the wind.
Not a brilliant photo but a shot of a Six-Spot Burnet Moth.
Birds Recorded: 2 Kestrel, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Dunnock, 1 Common Whitethroat, Great Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, House Sparrow, Chaffinch and Linnet.
Butterflies Recorded: Small Skipper, Lulworth Skipper, Large White, Green-veined White, Speckled Wood, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White, Peacock, 3 Comma and Chalk Hill Blue
Moths Recorded: Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
Hoverflies Recorded: Pellucid Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum) and Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) and Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
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About Here, along the old railway track, adjacent to Jubilee Close, Dawn came across these Cinnabar Moth caterpillars on their favourite food source - Ragwort.
Cinnabar Moth caterpillars
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