Thursday, July 19, 2012

Dally Bay–23rd June 2012

A local walk down to Dally Bay, North Rhins, the weather was threatening to worsen later so we weren’t going to get a long walk in today.

1-small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

2-toad

Common Toad

3-Dally-Bay

Rocky shore

4-Dally-Bay

 

5-Tower

Craig Laggan or the Ebbstone what remains of a shipping beacon

6-Eiders

Rafts of Eiders offshore

7-blow-hole

Blow hole

8-rocks

You need to watch where you walk here as it can be treacherous

9-print

Large deer print in the sand

10-Orchid

Common-spotted Orchid

11-6-spot-burnet

Six-spot Burnet moth

12-roe-deer

Roe Deer

13-wild-thyme

Wild Thyme

14-bog-aspodel

Bog Aspodel

15-lichen

Lichen

16-Grass-of-parnassus

Grass of Parnassus

17-6-spot-burnet-caterpillar

Six-spot Burnet caterpillar spinning cocoon…

18-6-spot-burnet-cocoon

…and a finished cocoon

Here’s a video shot with my camera of the caterpillar spinning its cocoon

19-Dally-Bay

Getting grey now and starting to rain so we head back

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