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I had an early-ish start and spent 4 hours at Crowle Moor yesterday morning. Hard work on very rough tussocky ground, very few Large Heaths to be seen and very difficult to track through the vegetation; if they settled they usually went to ground in the grass tussocks unseen, but usually they kept going and I couldn't follow, eventually. It seemed a lot easier last time I was there, despite it being (worryingly) bone dry this time. After 2 hours I had a piece of luck, this one fluttered and settled a few times before I caught up with it a couple of times in the open. I stayed until 12:30, but got very little more. A long hard morning.
Oh yes and I picked up 4 ticks as well, which secretly made the journey back to Nottingham with me! :-)
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Crowle Moor, Lincolnshire, UK. - with captured Leafhopper " Cicadella viridis". Maybe grusome but there were hundreds of Hoppers seen today and the damselfly has to eat to survive.
A scarce wetland specialist butterfly, found in a string of isolated colonies in countless small bogs, from central Wales to Orkney (nicked from Jeremy Thomas).
UK BAP: Priority status
I was warned to take my wellies, which I did. But I forgot them when I left the car. Spent the day with very soggy feet, socks and trail shoes. Hard graft, but it was fun...
...and yes, couldn't believe my luck when I found this individual sitting openly on this bracken frond after searching for 5 hours for a really clean shot; the more so as it didn't immediately flit off.
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Good to see the Large Red Damselfly...Pyrrhosoma nymphula still hanging in there.
Crowle Moor, Lincolnshire, England.
Crowle Moors, Lincolnshire. A 5 day trip to Yorkshire/Cumbria in search of northern butterflies and rarer raptors was mostly successful but did not start promisingly when I arrived at my first butterfly stop in the pouring rain.
Still showing signs of RHTT duties from before Christmas, 37218 is seen on the approach to Crowle with 6Z19 0943 York Worka to Scunthorpe. 17th January 2023.
Male Black Darter..Sympetrum danae.
One of Lincolnshire's less common species due to the peat moorland habitat it is found in, habitat that is rare in Lincolnshire and England generally.
First of the season for me, taken on a wet day at Crowle Moor NR, Lincolnshire.
7th July 2020
GBRf 60021 “Penyghent” runs alongside the Stainforth & Keadby Canal hauling 6D74 06:53 Doncaster Up Decoy - Scunthorpe Trent Yard SCO tripper consisting of a empty RDT set and a Kirow crane on the rear,
May 2023.