RSPB Mersehead–21st June 2014

A circular walk around RSPB Mersehead, Dumfries & Galloway.

RSPB Visitor Centre

I thought this was a Garden Chafer,
but I am informed it is a Dune Chafer (Anomala dubia)

Hoverfly Volucella bombylans

Dingy Flat-body (Depressaria daucella)

Tides out!

 

 

 

You can just see Robin Rigg, the tide is so far out it looks like you can walk to the turbines!

Beach to ourselves

Sea Kale (Crambe maritima)

Mini Thistle Forest!

 

Meadow Pipit

The Ragged Robin is almost over with but still looks lovely

Ragged Robin

 

Reed Bunting

This landed on my trousers…

…its a Four-banded Longhorn Beetle…

…Leptura quadrifasciata

Latticed Heath (Chiasmia clathrata)

Drinker Moth caterpillar

Another Reed Bunting-I never quite manage to get a clear shot of one!

7-spot Ladybird

Large Drinker with 10p coin to show scale!

Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)

Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)

Juvenile Blackbird

Regal Piercer (Pammene regiana) – I think!

Ladybird cocoon

Common Quaker caterpillar (Orthosia cerasi)

Dalbeattie Forest-14th June 2014

A lovely walk in Dalbeattie Forest, that was until it chucked it down and we got soaked

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Fallen tree, not surprising when its roots had nowhere to go!

Salmon Totem Pole

Two-banded Longhorn Beetle

Red-legged Shieldbug instar

Myxomycetes (Lycogala)

Lovely reflections in the loch

Friendly mallards

A glimpse of sunshine

Speckled Longhorn Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Speckled Longhorn Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Speckled Longhorn Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Speckled Longhorn Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Hoverfly Sericomyia lappona

Brown Silver-line

Couldn’t see what this was first…

…then saw it was a Ringlet, my first this year

green Orb Spider

Dead Shrew

Reed Beetle

Plateumaris sp

Heart Cleft Stane

…and then it started to rain, at the furthest point from the car!

I put my camera away, but it was worth getting it out again!

We were able to get quite close!