Among the Brambles #butterflies

Posted by on Aug 15, 2015 in 2015, August, Bramble, Butterflies, Flowers, Insects, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Butterfly, Silver-washed Fritillary, August 2015

 

Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis paphia, resting in Rubus fruticosus. (more…)

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St John’s Wort #plants

Posted by on Aug 14, 2015 in 2015, August, Flowers, Provisional identification, St John's-wort, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, St John's Wort, August 2015

 

Puzzled by the leaves, perhaps Hypericum tetrapterum – Square-stalked St John’s Wort. (more…)

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Hemp-agrimony #plants

Posted by on Aug 13, 2015 in 2015, August, Flowers, Hemp Agrimony, Summer | 0 comments

Flowers, Hemp-agrimony, August, 2015

 

Eupatorium cannabinum. (more…)

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Almost gone #plants

Posted by on Aug 12, 2015 in 2015, August, Flowers, Ragged Robin, Summer | 0 comments

 
 

Flowers, Ragged Robin, August 2015

 

Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi. (more…)

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The great plains #grasses

Posted by on Aug 11, 2015 in 2015, August, General, Grass, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

General, east ride, August 2015

 

The luxuriant east ride. (more…)

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Wood Burdock #plants

Posted by on Aug 10, 2015 in 2015, August, Burdocks, Flowers, Provisional identification, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Wood Burdock, provisional identification, August 2015

 

Arctium nemorosum, provisional identification. (more…)

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One of the Crambinae #insects

Posted by on Aug 9, 2015 in 2015, August, Insects, Summer, Unidentified | 0 comments

 

Insects, Moths, unidentified, August 2015

 

Probably one of the grass moth family. (more…)

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A coat of many colours #butterflies

Posted by on Aug 7, 2015 in 2015, August, Butterflies, Insects, Peacock, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Butterflies, Peacock, August 2015

 

Peacock, Inachis io. (more…)

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Bittersweet or Woody Nightshade #plants

Posted by on Aug 6, 2015 in 2015, August, Bittersweet, Flowers, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Flowers, Bittersweet, August 2015

 

Solanum dulcamara. (more…)

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‘To search the dwellings of the deer’ #wildlife

Posted by on Aug 5, 2015 in 2015, August, Deer, Fauna, Roe, Summer | 2 comments

 

 

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August is off to a good start with a Roe deer hind, Capreolus capreolus, and kid by the pond. (more…)

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The (almost) all-seeing eye #wildlife

Posted by on Aug 4, 2015 in 2015, Fauna, July, Rabbit, Summer | 0 comments

 

 

Fauna, Rabbit, July 2015

 

Rabbits can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose says OneKind.org (more…)

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One of the biggest in the UK #hover flies

Posted by on Aug 3, 2015 in 2015, Insects, July, Summer, Volucella pellucens | 0 comments

 

 

Insect, Hover fly, Volucella pellucens, July 2015

 

For more on the Pellucid hover fly, Volucella pellucens, see Nature Spot. (more…)

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