{"id":13308,"date":"2025-09-01T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:43:50","slug":"rodley-nature-reserve-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/rodley-nature-reserve-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodley Nature Reserve in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photos from a couple of trips to Rodley Nature Reserve<\/a> one of the trips with a couple of members of the Bingley Camera Club<\/a> wildlife group. The header image is of Mute Swan, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Mallard, and possibly a couple of Gadwall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Birds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As usual there was a nice selection of birds at the reserve. Lapwing, Little Egret, Mallard, Gadwall, Swan and youngsters, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Robin (this is a juvenile just getting its red breast), Buzzard, and a lovely display by four Sparrowhawks, though I only managed to get two in the shot at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On these visits I didn’t here anyone shouting about rare visitors tucked away in the reeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Insects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Before deciding on the heading here I had to check that all these are insects. Dragonflies, bugs and butterflies are all under the Class Insecta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here we have Hoverfly, a Mirid Bug (Deraeocoris<\/em> plant bug) and Honey Bee, all on Tansy flower heads. A Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum<\/em>) on fiddleneck (Phacelia tanacetifolia<\/em>), a Gatekeeper butterfly, and then Common Blue Damselflies, Brown Hawker Dragonfly ovipositing, and finally a few photos of male and female Common Darter Dragonflies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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