Category: Paul’s Blog
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Yeadon Tarn
I had a little trip out to Yeadon today. I took the car out and plugged it into a charger at Library and topped the battery up while I played a little Ingress and walked around Yeadon Tarn. The header image is a rather smart looking male House Sparrow. The birds and butterflies were not…
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Caterpillar, Butterflies and Hoppers
Guess what? I have been to Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits again. Thanks to someone paying attention (not me) I had better mention that the header image is of a Cinnabar Moth caterpillar on Ragwort. There was a slight wind most of the time during the visit but when it settled for a few minutes with…
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Fish Pass at Saltaire/Robert’s Park Weir
In between the showers today I went down to Robert’s Park to see what is happening at the weir. Progress is being made with the fish pass. It looks as though there is quite a bit of water having to be pumped out of where they are working. I wonder if that is because they…
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Gravel on a Sunday
Another visit to Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits. 🙂 26 July 2020. Click on the images below for higher quality images, especially if you are viewing on a PC. On each visit recently I have been looking out for Cinnabar Moth caterpillars on the Ragwort and this Sunday was the first time I have seen them.…
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Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits 24 July 2020
I have made yet another visit to Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits, partly because I like driving my new car, partly because I have been able to top the battery up free of charge, but mainly because it was a sunny day and I still want to get a good photo of a flying Brown Hawker…
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Potter Pits 20 July 2020
I spent half an hour at Potter Pits near Shipley Station on Monday. Very few butterflies but I still enjoyed taking a few photos. All the photos are in the one gallery so once viewing an image you should be able to scroll through them all. I find it much better to do this on…
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Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits 20 July 2020
I had another trip to Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits on Monday. I am hoping to get some decent shots of flying Brown Hawkers but I only saw one. On the same day I also spent half an hour at Potter Pits near Shipley Station, click the link to see the results of that visit. What…
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Mink on a Thursday afternoon at Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits
I have decided I like the slightly open space of the Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits Nature Reserve. It is easy to move off into little side paths for people to pass and maintain sensible (>2m) distance. So I went again on Thursday. I also went on Friday hoping to get better photos of the Brown…