{"id":13110,"date":"2025-08-27T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:08:35","slug":"denso-scrape-2-aug-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/denso-scrape-2-aug-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Denso + Scrape 2 Aug ’25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am playing catch-up with going through my photos. I still have lots to look through from July but this lot are from early August, taken on a visit to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, the Scrape between the reserve and the Buck Lane footbridge. The stars of the show were the good views of Common Blue butterflies in the Scrape, the header image is one of them. I quite like the photos of the Cormorant too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual you can tap\/touch\/click on an image to see it in better quality in the carousel gallery where titles and other info is available. And if you like what you see please click on one or more of the Share <\/em>buttons at the bottom of the post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clearing the weeds (water soldier? Stratiotes aloides<\/em>?) out of the pond looks like hard work, there’s plenty more in there. I believe that a lot more work has since been done by the volunteers in clearing the pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the back of the pond, in the reeds, I could hear the call of a Chiffchaff “hweet<\/em>” from a couple of places, I could also see the reeds moving and eventually managed to get a photo of what looks like a recently fledged Chiffchaff looking a bit fluffy still in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wings on the Green Veined White butterfly are looking rather tattered now and unfortunately they are not able to repair or heal them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I reckon the moth on the Tansy is a Nettle Tap Anthophila fabriciana<\/em> but that is based on some simple searching and I would be happy to be given a proper ID and some info about what to look at. For the Hoverfly on the Tansy I managed to get some feedback. It is a Cheilosia scutellata female\u2026.the yellow tip to the scutellum narrows things down to Cheilosia scutellata, soror or longula, and then the dark antennae and pale forelegs narrow it down further to scutellata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wheel of the car in the river shows that the water is very low. I intend to get a few photos of it to show differing levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cormorant<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

These are of a Cormorant on rocks at the far side of the weir, taken from the Buck Lane footbridge. It looks quite a majestic bird with its wings spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Scrape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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These, in addition to the Common Blue are those taken in the scrape and by the Buck Lane Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n