Recent Sighting

Scorpionfly Panorpa communis   Click for photo

Much bat activity overnight – Common and Soprano Pipistrelles, Brown long-eared, Noctule, Serotine, Western Barbastelle and unidentified Myotis species

Swifts, 7

Poplar Hawk Click for photo  and Green Silver-lines Click for photo  moths, and some eggs laid in the moth trap (probably from Pale Tussock moth) Click for photo

Fine Sulphur Polypore Laetiporus sulphurous   Click for photo

Fox cub (one of three) foraging alone   Click for video

Wood White butterflies, several spring brood

Very large female pipistrelle bat of indeterminate species taken into care with serious cat injuries. (DNA test showed it to be Pipistrellus pipistrellus).

Green-veined White butterfly

Orange-tip male and Comma butterflies