Category Archives: JMNR Sightings

In the first of two visits for week 19 Nikki Mahadevan recorded 52 individuals from 8 species: Comma (7), Gatekeeper (8), Green-veined White (19), Meadow Brown (9), Peacock (1), Red Admiral (4), Ringlet (2), and Small Skipper (2). Additional butterfly … Continue reading →

Birds: Blackbird, Common Buzzard, Pheasant, Robin, Woodpigeon. Butterflies: Comma (5), Gatekeeper (2), Green-veined White, Meadow Brown (2), Peacock, Red Admiral (3), Ringlet, Small Skipper (2), Small White, Speckled Wood (2). Moth: Shaded Broad-bar. Damselfly: Jeff Davies found at least three … Continue reading →

Keith Turton endured the torment of an active and well-diversified insect fauna, on a windless afternoon, to carry out the week 18 transect walk. He survived, and recorded Comma (1), Gatekeeper (12), Green-veined White (11), Large White (2), Meadow Brown … Continue reading →

Birds: A juvenile Mandarin Duck on the Hide Pond, Moorhen, Woodpigeon. Butterflies: Plenty of butterflies about this morning – Comma, Essex Skipper (see photo – the key characteristic separating this from the Small Skipper is the black underside to the … Continue reading →

After emptying the moth trap: Moorhen, Wood Pigeon. Green-veined White, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Comma. Straw Dot, Nettle tap, Latticed Heath, Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet, Udea lutealis, Argyresthia goedartella. Large Red damselfly, Emerald damselfly, Common Darter. A longhorn beetle – Rutpela … Continue reading →

Recent good weather has boosted butterfly numbers again, with John Parlby recording 77 individuals of 8 species on the week 17 transect walk. Although Ringlets appear to be coming to the end of their short flight period, the number of … Continue reading →

Another visit by Jeff Davies to record the damselflies and dragonflies using the Bottom Pond, as part of the PondNet Adult Dragonflies Survey. 1 Azure and 1 Large Red Damselfly; 2 Common Darter and 2 Brown Hawker dragonflies, with the … Continue reading →

The reserve was “heaving with ringlets – both on and off the transect” according to Alan Kydd, who carried out the recording for week 16 of the butterfly season. Fifty four butterflies were recorded on the transect (a five metre … Continue reading →

A bug – Calocoris stysi (also known as Grypocoris stysi), Emerald damselfly, Azure damselfly, Comma.