Recent Sighting

Two male Common Darters, over the same puddle. And, less expected, a male Emperor, patrolling a puddle, and two female Emperors, ovipositing in the banks of puddles

Speckled Wood butterfly in 17ºC temp

Sparrowhawk being enthusiastically chased by two carrion crows

Many varieties of fungi on a dead tree stump

Much bat activity over lake. Common and Soprano pipistrelles, Daubenton’s, Natterer’s, Brown Long-eared and Noctule all seen clearly by lamplight

Rare Wood Sandpiper    Click for photo

Convolvulus Hawkmoth   Click for photo

Scarletina Bolete Neoboletus praestigiator (known before as Boletus erythropus or luridiformis)   Click for photo

Red-cracked Bolete Boletus chrysenteron   Click for photo

 Psathyrella corrugis fungus   Click for photo