Carlton Marsh & South Kirkby Industrial Park

Carlton Marsh

7 members of the Sorby Breck Group visited today. Here are just a few of the species they found. 2 Common Tern from 15.30hrs. 2 Oystercatchers were on the wader scrape with 20 Herring gulls.

16 Burnet Companion moths and 1 micro Nemophora degeerella. 

Butterflies, 4 Common Blue, 1 Small Heath, 1 Red Admiral, 6 Speckled Wood. 

Dragonflies included 5 4 Four Spot Chasers, 1f Broad-bodied Chaser, 2 Large Red Damsels and Azure was abundant. 

Roesel's Bush Cricket, Conehead larvae, and a Common Grasshopper. A Cellar Spider was languishing in the toilet block and a Spotted Longhorn Beetle was on Hogweed.

                   Spotted Longhorn Beetle (Ruptela maculata)

 Common Spotted, Southern Marsh and a single Bee Orchid. A surprise Bilberry plant found growing in the southern meadow is new  to the data base.

South Kirkby Industrial Park

My first Meadow Brown of the year, 2 S. Tortoiseshell from a new brood, 8 Large Skipper, 2 Brown Argus, 39 Common Blue, 2m Brimstone, 14 species in all. 

Moths included single Forrester, Blood vein, Mother Shipton, Burnet Companion, N.B. 5 Spot Burnet Moth, Straw Dot, Mother Shipton, 6 Yellow Shell and a Drinker moth larvae. Also 2m 1f Broad-bodied Chaser (C. Parkin).