Monthly Archives: July 2010

Hodbarrow Photos 25th July 2010

Green Leafhopper Cicadella viridis Privet Hawk-moth Sphinx ligustri Common Blue  female Polyommatus icarus Seaside Centaury Centuarium littorale & Wild Thyme Thymus polytrichus Waxcap Hygrocybe sp. Perforate St. John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum Garden Snail Helix aspersa Agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria & Red Soldier … Continue reading

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Cilygroeslwyd Reserve, Ruthin 21/7/10

Sunny,warm and humid – best day of the week. In the small overgrown quarry I counted 145 specimens of the rare limestone woundwort. Plenty of butterflies in such a small area with large skipper, comma, ringlet, meadow brown and gatekeeper. … Continue reading

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Naturalists’ Notebook Part 2

While out today surveying one of my patches for this years grayling survey on the Sefton Coast I noticed a pair of mating grayling fluttering around having decided to try to get a photo I put my notebook down and … Continue reading

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“The Dream”, St Helens, 18th July 2010

The weather wasn’t encouraging when we met at Lime Street Station for the 10.01 Manchester train.  We left Lea Green station at 10.25 and walked south on Chester Lane in a continuous light drizzle. Turned right into Brickfields Daisyfield nature … Continue reading

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Puffin Island / Penmon Point Photos

Disembarking after Puffin Island Boat Trip Sandwich Terns Nesting Guillemots On Puffin Island Penmon Point Lighthouse With Puffin Island Lion’s Mane Jellyfish Cyanea capillata on Beaumaris beach Tall spikes of Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii at Penmon Point Dead Pygmy … Continue reading

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Puffin Island, MNA meeting 10/7/10

A most successful day and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Numerous shags, far outnumbering the cormorants, three eider, four red-breasted mergansers, the inevitable hordes of guillemots on the north-facing ledges intermingled with  kittiwakes on their seaweed nests, close views of at … Continue reading

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Burscough to Rufford, 11th July 2010

It was a longish walk for us today, about 4 miles along the canal. We took the 10.10 train to Ormskirk then waited about half an hour in Ormskirk bus station for the 2B bus at 11.15 to Burscough Bridge … Continue reading

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Minera, Wrexham 8/7/10

A rewarding visit to the extensive disused limestone quarries a short distance above Minera. The wooded lower slopes had numerous common twayblade, a good cluster of broad-leaved  helleborine and a meadow full of meadow browns, ringlets and common spotted orchids. … Continue reading

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Bidston, 4th July 2010

We had an interesting mixed bag of places to see today. We took the 437 West Kirkby bus from Sir Thomas Street at 10.20, arriving at Upton Road/Grasmere Avenue at 10.45. It was warm and overcast, with a gusty wind … Continue reading

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