Recent Sighting

Holly Blue butterfly nectaring on Cotoneaster Click for Photo

Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis, male Click for photo

Painted Lady butterfly

Painted Lady nectaring on Dames Violet for 20 minutes

Tiny Red Fox cub suckling from vixen – later joined by a second cub Click for photo

Juvenile Marpissa muscosa – a fairly scarce jumping spider Click for photo

Stag beetle Click for photo

Bats on the wing overnight. Common and Soprano pipistrelle, Brown long-eared, Serotine, Western Barbastelle and an unidentified Myotis species

Wood-boring beetle Rhagium bifasciatum Click for photo

Hoverfly Eristalis pertinax Click for photo and wood-boring beetle Elateroides dermestoides Click for photo