Category Archives: MNA reports

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

Redstart, lesser spotted woodpecker, red kite, little egret, grey heron, buzzard, sedge warbler, willow warbler, blackcap, wood warbler, hen harrier, robin on a sandy path and tree creeper on tree trunk-both sunning themelves.   Brown and migrant hawker, common blue and … Continue reading →

An extraordinary sight meets the gaze of visitors to the sludge beds at Frodsham Marsh at the moment with hundreds of yards of the hedgerow above N0 6 bed a line of shimmering white in the sunshine. The shrubs which … Continue reading →

Pair of Shelduck, Cockchafer  and Green Tiger beetle, Dingy Skippers, 4-Spotted Chasers and Early Purple Orchid in Trowbarrow Quarry with Jackdaws nesting in crevices in the vertical rock face.Brimstones, Pearl-borded Fritillary and good display of Birdseye Primrose at little Hawes … Continue reading →

Trowbarrow Quarry Mr Ed Coal Tit fledgling Welsh Poppy Early-purple Orchid Orchis mascula

Badger Skull Red Deer skull and antlers Reindeer Lichen Cladonia portentosa Black Slug Arion ater and Dor Beetle Geotrupes stercorarius

Great spotted and green woodpeckers, pied flycatchers(5), pair of spotted flycatchers, wood warbler, half a dozen garden warblers, siskins, redpolls, buzzards, osprey, peregrine and a very confiding tree creeper feeding on top of a low wall  right in front of … Continue reading →

An improvement in the weather today saw more butterflies on the wing, with common blue quite active along with peacock, small tortoiseshell, green veined white, large white, small heath and more interestingly three wall near the sailing club. Dave H 

A desiccated Common Toad Bufo bufo

St Mark’s Flies Bibio marci. Female left, male right. Adults usually emerge around St Mark’s Day, 25th April