A walk down to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, through the scrape behind Sapper Jordan Rossi Way and up to the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
There’s a few things I like:-
- A 16 Spot Ladybird peering down at a couple of Soldier Beetles.
- A six spot Burnet Moth on a Great Burnet flower, and
- A good view of a singing Song Thrush, they are often heard but getting good views is difficult.
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Denso Marston Nature Reserve
There’s not many photos from DMNR. Just a couple taken from the path down to the gate. Hazel tree and Cherry tree on the way down and then what I think is a Dryad’s Saddle polypore bracket fungus and a Cormorant with its wings out for drying.
The Scrape
Walking through the grasses and plants on the Scrape has become much more interesting even though it is not the same without the hedge rows that used to be in the area. The Ringlet butterfly is looking a bit worn around the edges. It is surprising how many times I get back and look closer at some of the photos and see something new. There are often tiny insects sharing the frame with the main subject. Like the two mating Soldier Beetles with the 16 spot Ladybird looking down towards them. The 2 Green Veined Whites were also mating. There were a few Burnet Moths around, some of them looking as though they had only recently emerged and needed to recover from the process. I like the second one, a Six Spot Burnet Moth on a Great Burnet flower. Did the Burnet Moth give its name to the flower of the flower give its name to the moth?
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The photo of the grass and the Small Skipper appealed to me, I guess because it helps show things with their surroundings.
The fly is an Eriothrix rufomaculata and the Wasp is one of the Ichneumon Wasps.
Buck Mill Lane & Canal
Up on the Leeds Liverpool Canal a Water Lily was in flower but I did not spot any Dragonflies flitting around and laying their eggs.
The Comma butterfly and the Ash seeds heads were on the canal bank but the Song Thrush and Blackbirds were visible from the end of the Buck Lane footbridge. I am sure the Blackbirds, and all other wildlife, are totally oblivious to the source of the objects they forage around it is disheartening to see our rubbish/cast-offs that they have to live around.
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