Tegg's Nose

Revisiting Tegg's Nose after nearly a year and a half. As usual, a roasting hot, sunny day. We spent a long time on the first descent with lots of rain-drops on the foxgloves, Redstarts and a family of Stoats! We could have stayed there all day.

Tegg's Nose elevation

Tegg's Nose route

Redstart

Stoat

Stoat

Meadow Pipit

Curlew

Flock of Curlew flushed from a field

View from Tegg's Nose

Foxgloves with raindrops

Unopened Foxgloves with raindrops

Closeup of Foxgloves

Foxglove

Harvestman found under stone

Foxglove

Peacock Caterpillars

Female Scorpion Fly

Marbury Country Park

A revisit to Marbury Country Park, after many years. Quite a lot of woodland and wildflowers, although it does get very busy by midday.

Never seen so many harvestmen, legs everywhere!

Emerging acorn

Harvestman with legs akimbo

Harvestman

Spider

Bumblebee

Bumblebee

Green Shieldbug

Fly

Cranefly

Cranefly

The waterside near our lunchstop benches were hopping with small frogs and toads. Not as cooperative this time, I ended up with muddy knees and elbows but the only good shots were from one climbing up Gill's arm.

Common Toad

Common Toad

Hoverfly

Greenbottle

Hoverfly

Hoverfly

Ladybird and aphid "lunch"

Boothsdale

Blimey, it's the weekend and it's not raining, let's go! A wander around Boothsdale to see what's there (hundreds of horses on narrow tracks, apparently).

Boothsdale route

Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Harvestman

We found this Dunnock sitting in the track, dazed and not flying away. After a quick close up we moved it into the undergrowth and provided some emergency rations of crumbs. Might have had a run in with a horse's hoof but no real way of knowing what happened.

Dazed Dunnock

Cranefly

Fly on flowers

Fly on flowers

Bee

Bee

Dandelion Clock

Gill on bales

Tortoiseshell on thistle

Spotted Wood on bracken

Treecreeper silhouette

Spotted wood in grass

Buzzard

Buzzard

And in a continuing series on the perils of photography

Nettle Stings

always look where you're kneeling. Ow.