Happy New Year all, Recent correspondance has mentioned bird feeders and observations over the Xmas period proved interesting. Sharon and I were staying in a...
Hi Mike and everyone, Happy New Year! Last week I almost got around to starting a 'personal wildlife highlights of 2006' thread. If I had have done, my visits...
Hi Richard, As you clearly know the area you'll have spotted that I omitted to mention Large Heath,Grayling,Green Hairstreak and Wood White as other...
In a message dated 01/01/07 19:06:37 GMT Standard Time, ... Mike, I've been visiting the Arnside area for 20+ years now for butterflies and can only endorse...
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Hi Colin, The Wood White on Arnside Knott sounds very plausible in that the habitat seems bang on- I must confess I've not personally seen one there. I just...
Hi Dave, Although bats do hibernate they will come out when it is warm enough and there is a potential to find some food before going back to hibernate for a...
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Hi everyone, You are making one novice lepidopterist very envious! I've been trying to persuade a reluctant hubby to visit Arnside Knott for a couple of...
Jack Dennison
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Hi Jacqueline, I'm certainly no expert, but if you time things right you will see rare butterflies practically as soon as you step out of the car on the Knott-...
Mike said ... Hopefully this year! :) I too was concerned that I might not find my way around Arnside Knott but the hillside itself is actually quite small...
Jack, Richard's quite right about the permit for Gait Barrows , though there are also public footpaths through part of the reserve. As with him, I've...
In a message dated 07/01/07 23:04:07 GMT Standard Time, ... Jacqueline, Mike and Richard are right - you really can't fail at Arnside Knott and anyone with any...
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i have posted a photo of a catapillar [?]a moth i think,but could someone id.it for me.The pic was taken at Netherfield.. Dave...
First thought , recalling childhood memories , was Puss Moth and a quick check in my Field Guide ( which isn't brilliant ) seems to confirm this Dave. Although...
Dave and Mike, It's definitely a Puss Moth. Back markings do vary a little, but this one is at the pre-pupation stage where the background colouration changes...
... Quick check in my books supports Mike: The long long thin 'tails' at the rear are modified anal claspers and characteristic of some Notodontidae,...
Hi everyone,thanks for the feedback on Puss Moth catapiller,nice to know what i'm dealing with. Now,does any one know a good web site for flora that is'nt in...
You might find it difficult Dave. Like it or loathe it, Latin is the universal language for all flora and fauna. What's a Daisy to us....may possibly be a...
Hi, Thanks to everyone for the Arnside Knott info. I really can't wait but three visits might be pushing my luck! However we used to race up to the Lakes at...
Jack Dennison
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This morning, walking back with my paper through Nottingham University Jubilee Campus, I was flabbergasted to see a female Mallard with 11 ducklings. Photo on...
Hello all,i have posted more photos,more ID please,wait untill the flowers start blooming! Plus,is my field guide OK ? I ask,because i have a number of old...
... flowers start blooming! ... Dave, The orangey-red beetle with a black apex to the wing covers is most likely the soldier beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, see this...
Hi Dave. Photograph bb61 is one of the soldier beetles, probably Rhagonycha fulva The Ladybird is a Harlequin Harmonia axyridis f. succinea. You don't mention...
Hi Richard, Depending upon which species of Snowdrop they can flower from November onwards, so it could just be an early species OR it could be that as it has...
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I hadn't realised there was more than one species - only the Common Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis is listed in my Collins Pocket Guide. A quick check on the...
... Last year when we cleared scrub on the butterfly patch at Attenborough we uncovered a big clump of snowdrops (G. nivalis, before anyone asks), but within a...
