Author Archives: Sabena Blackbird

 http://www.jellyfish.ie/index.asp The EcoJel project aims to assess the opportunities and detrimental impacts of jellyfish in the Irish Sea. They need your help! We are into the jellyfish season and the EcoJel team are interested in your recent jellyfish sightings. They … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Ichneumon Wasp Rhyssa persuasoria Golden-ringed Dragonfly Cordulegaster boltonii Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata Nursery Web Spider Pisaura mirabilis Water Forget-me-not Myosotis scorpioides

Terry Williams was kind enough to take Dave Bryant and me back to Hay Bridge Reserve with some great sightings as always! Birds Of Prey included a displaying Osprey, a Honey Buzzard and the cutest Tawny Owl fledgling 🙂 A couple of female Ichneumon … Continue reading →

Limestone Cliffs on the Great Orme Silver Studded Blue Female Grayling Lady’s Bedstraw View from the Great Orme overlooking Llandudno Bay towards the Little Orme

A much needed day off work! visiting the Great Orme at Llandudno with Dave Bryant and Dave Hardy. Scorching hot day, highlights included: cackling Fulmars on the cliff ledges, nesting Guillemots and Razorbills, Peregrine gliding along the cliff face, Choughs, … Continue reading →

White Satin Moth Leucoma salicis pair mating White Satin Moth Caterpillar White Satin Moth female laying eggs Southern Marsh–orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa Early Marsh–orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata

Lots of White Satin Moths Leucoma salicis in the large dune slack south of the Ainsdale Discovery Centre.  Plenty of empty pupae cases, adult moths on the wing, mating pairs and females busy laying eggs. Unusually, the Satin Moth overwinters in the caterpillar … Continue reading →

Blue-tailed Damselfly – pair in copulation wheel Foxgloves Fresh Bracken with developing spores Large Red Damselfly – pair in tandem