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I have quite a few trips out with my camera to record. I am trying to decide whether I should organise them by time, by place, or by subject. In the meantime this post is of a look around the Peace Garden at the end of Cliffe Avenue playground and then parts of Baildon Bank on 18 July. At the end I have included a map showing where I wandered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can click on a photo to see it larger and better quality and with the option to click on the i<\/em> for more information about it. Each photo has a There will also be arrows to navigate between the photos in the gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peace Garden<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It looks as though I should have visited the Peace Garden earlier in the year because a lot of the flowers there were past their best. There were still some nice ones around though. Cornflower, Love-in-the-mist, Corncockle, Marigold, Musk Mallow and Poppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Love-in-a-mist<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Corncockle<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Marigold<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Pink<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Red<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div>
\"Seed<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Oak<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
\"Cinnabar<\/a><\/figure><\/div>
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The Oak Galls were on the tree at the side of the garden. The Cinnabar Moth caterpillar and the 22 spot ladybird were at the top of the slope next to Green Road behind the Peace Garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Baildon Bank<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One of the first things I noticed on Baildon Bank was grass covered mounds of sandy soil, with holes and grooves in them, ant nests. Mental note to self – visit the area more in the hope of spotting Green Woodpeckers, they feed on ants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Nursery<\/figure>
\"Grasshopper\"<\/figure>
\"Oak<\/figure><\/div>
\"Acorn\"<\/figure>
\"Fly<\/figure>
\"Gatekeeper<\/figure><\/div>
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\"Shrew\"<\/figure>
\"Emley<\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the open spaces there were several Gatekeeper butterflies that I followed around but they didn’t stay still for long. The Nursery Web spider was guarding its web which presumably had little spiders under it. The Oak Gall looked a lot fresher than the ones I spotted in the Peace Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At about 3:45 several school kids came down the bank. A couple of them held back, a bit behind some rocks, looking as though they were reading some exercise books. Others were calling saying “We are going this way. Come on.” Once they had moved on I realised that they hadn’t been reading their books, but ripping them up, and throwing them around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emley Moor transmitter was certainly waving in the heat haze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Header Image<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Just near the junction between Cliffe Avenue and Cliffe Lane West, on the triangle of grass, next to where the Fish & chip shop with the tilted chimney used to be, I spotted some Cinnabar Moth caterpillars and that is where the header image is from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The blue squiggles show where I wandered taking the photos except for the first few in the Peace Garden. I missed the first few because I am not very good at remembering to start recording my tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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