Thursday, 20 June 2013

Undisclosed Peat bog site

In the glorious summer sunshine of early June, we visited an area of old peat bog nestled in between a maze of undesirable arable land in West Lancashire.

The target species was Emperor moth as we've been trying to see, even just one, for years.

It was a great walk through the site but with amazingly no Emperor moths, even though just over a week previously there had been sightings on the reserve of up to 15 individual moths!

As said though a great walk nonetheless with other sightings of c5 Green hairstreak, lots of  Round-leaved Sundews, Wild cranberries galore, Thousands of Cottongrass plants and breeding Meadow pipits.

Unidentified Caterpillar sp. on Heather

Round-leaved Sundew

Wild Cranberry in flower

Cottongrass

Faded Green hairstreak

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