Yet another walk along the river and canal. This walk includes Potters Pits, the area on the other side of the railway line from Shipley Station Butterfly Meadow where I went with Bradford Urban Wildlife Group.
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DMNR
These are from Denso Marston Nature Reserve + a couple from the river near Buck Lane footbridge. The first photo is of two Ladybirds mating. They have different colour and different spots. Does anything come of this?
Comma butterflies have been around for a couple of months now. I don’t see them in numbers but they are often around.
The Fruit Fly is possibly a Burdock Fly. DMNR does have Lesser burdock (Arctium minus) growing on it.
The mating Damselflies were different to the ones often seen on the reserve. Azure Damselflies are often seen paires but then the female is usually green. In these photos the female is pink. This made me look closer to identify them as Blue Tailed Damselflies.
Even though the water at the far end of Buck Lane footbridge looks almost stagnant, where the water flow is almost zero, there are still shoals of fish in the area. The Grey Heron, Kingfisher, Goosander etc. have to eat something, and its there.
Leeds Liverpool Canal
When someone is stopped by the Police for riding an electric bike, electric scooter or an electric unicycle illegally they I assume the thing they were riding gets taken off them. Do they get it back? There is a tremendous variation in cost of unicycles. The cheap ones I would not want anywhere near my house if I was charging it, and the others I would not want to be taken off me if I was stopped.
I had to do a bit of investigating for the photo of the hook switch. It is a power line switch that can be operated by reaching up to it with a pole hook.
The photo of the Red Admiral from above shows the abdomen curled under so I assume it is laying eggs.
I posted a photo of a canal boat named Quay Change a few weeks ago. These are two more named boats at the same location.
Also a few weeks ago I posted photos of Sand Martins nesting in the wall that used to be the cellar of the Glen Royal cinema on Briggate.
Potters Pits
When I first started posting photos from this location I asked if anyone could confirm that it was called Potters Pits and why. But I have yet to hear anything. I can’t remember where I got the information from.
At the moment the grasses in that area seem to be taking over. I remember that on previous visits there was a lot more Ragwort, Knapweed and Thistle. I will go back a few more times and see how it develops. The land on the other side of Bradford Beck is currently being cleared and levelled so that it can be used as a works area while the old Crossleys yard it turned into a train yard.
Back along the river
These are a few from completing the circuit by going along the river back to the start.
I will keep taking photos of the car wheel to see how the water level in the river changes.. It is low but it was lower last month.
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