A cloudy day but some chance of sunshine so we decided on a beach walk from Monreith as the tide was out. Hoping to see a few invertebrates!
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Small spotted Cat-shark egg case aka Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)
English Stonecrop
Wild Thyme
Deserted beach!
Cranbus probably pratella or lathoniellus
Common Blue Butterfly
My first grasshopper of the year!
Micro moth-Lobesia littoralis I think
Biting Stonecrop
Common Blue…
…and underside
Linnets
It can only be D&G….
…with a beach to ourselves!
Rock patterns
Silver Y moth
Some good caves here…
..this ones a bit spooky, looks like its streaked with blood!
Fulmars nesting on the cliffs
Plenty of wormcasts…
…and food for waders
Winkle shells
Sea Rocket
Caterpillar Dingy Flat-body moth (Depressaria daucella)
Small spotted Cat-shark aka Lesser Spotted Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Moth trying to hide but I can just see its a Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
Silverweed
Lots of these emerging from the sand..
…Black Marram Weevils
Six-spot Burnet Moth
A rather large Click Beetle-Agrypnus murinus
Monreith from St Medans (click to see larger)
Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Dog rose
Kirkmaiden Church
Francois Thurot plaque
Old stone
View from the churchyard
Beautiful carving around the door
All a bit overgrown at the oment and the gates locked…
…last time we visited it was open.
Looking towards St Medans Golf Course
Silver ground Carpet moth
Nettletap moth
Foxgloves
Buzzard with “streamers”, I think it must have pick up some grass with its last prey!
Foxglove closeup
Chimney Sweeper moth
Burnet Rose
Large Skipper Butterfly
Northern Brown Argus Butterfly
Wall Butterfly
7 Spot Ladybird Larvae
Common Blue butterfly-lots of these about
Flies on poo!
We are doing a circular and walking back on the cliff path
Who?
Gavin Maxwell of course!
Maxwells otter
Panorama (click to see larger)
St Medans
Otters view!
Another Wall butterfly, this ones a bit faded!
Caterpillar- of the Magpie moth
I think this is another ladybird larvae
Monreith Bay
Timothy Tortrix, I think
Common Blue (female)
Waterfall
Crambus lathoniellus
Common Blue Male
