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Old 31-07-2007, 06:57 PM
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Darland banks visits - Photo heavy!

On my 2 latest visits to darland banks, last friday (with ian) and Mon (on my own) I saw loads:

Friday:

My first ever slowworm


Loads of cinnebar adults


a cinnebar moth caterpiller


This pregnant female Common Lizard - about 30seconds after Ian said "we wont se any reptiles today, its to windy and late in the day" - she must have heard him lol


This odd Grasshopper


A common? blue


A labyrinth spider -used the old twitching grass trick again, either ive got better or this species is really gullable!


And it was so good I went back monday when i need to kill time before I could get the train where I saw:

this Common Lizard under a log pile me and Ian missed on monday! and looking at the photo there was a toad I didnt see, well not that time...


But then I came back to the log pile after walking round and turned a few more over and found this fella, who is probaly the same one as the photo above


A Brown Argus


some chalk hill blues - we saw these friday too, but they were more cooperative and numerous monday


Also - this ill annoy Ian - I found a solitary Marbled White, after finding none friday. And yet 3 weeks befor they were everywhere


This site was really good for butterflies with 3 blue species that I could see and atleast 3 whites. Also there was lots of mating cinnebars, they were suprisingly hard to see but I saw 3. 2 of which where on this grass with black ooze on

looking at it is it the chryslis/pupa of the moth adn its just recently emerged?
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