Recent Sightings
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date you saw it and the general area you saw it in. If you took any pictures, then
feel free to include your favourite picture with the email. Please note that the
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12th September
Latest photos from Mike Pearson
Wheatear, stonechat, southern hawker and common darter
11th September
John Hume - A walk along and below Langdale Rigg resulted in seeing 3 male, and one
female, southern hawker dragonflies, a couple of peacock butterflies, a speckled
wood, a small tortoiseshell and a female brimstone.
10th September
Belinda Robson - with the possible fall in numbers, it was good to see 4 Small Tortoiseshells
on my Sedum plants yesterday and today. Also in garden Red Admiral, Large White,
2 Speckled Woods disputing usual territory, and this rather sad looking specimen
9th September
John Hume - A visit to the ponds in Harwood Dale was rewarded with excellent sightings
of common hawker, southern hawker, black darter and common darter dragonflies and
one or two emerald damselflies
5th September
Mike Randall - Following on from Maggie Beal's post we saw a Sexton Beetle in Harwood
Dale Forest on 23 August again on the body of a shrew.The beetle was physically moving
the corpse and was doing exactly what it stated in our field guide.
1st September
Maggie Beal - While out walking our dogs in Wykeham Forest today my husband and I
spotted some beetles of a type which we had never seen before. As they were making
a meal of a dead shrew, I thought back to my school days and the name 'Sexton Beetle'
came back to me. I've checked in one of our books, and that's exactly what they
were. It also says that they are very rare in this area, which will explain why
they were unfamiliar. Further along the track we saw another one on a plant stalk.
Belinda Robson -
Brimstone Moth, hoverflies, painted lady and a gold spot moth. She also had 4 second
generation speckled wood butterflies in her garden yesterday.
26th August
John Hume. So that this page isn’t totally devoid of photographs, above are a few
things that I have seen over the last couple of months.
From top left - golden-ringed dragonfly, painted lady, mating common blues, female
keeled skimmer, small tortoiseshell, slow worm, grass of parnassus, marbled white,
dragonfly larva, damselfly larva, common hawker, southern hawker, goldfinch.
