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Day 46: Cinnabar Moth, one of several I spotted in my yard.

Last year I had hundreds of cinnabar moth caterpillars chomping on the dozen or so Ragwort plants that suddenly popped up. Ragwort is poisonous as are the caterpillars and moths. In fact there were so many caterpillars that I collected 4 lots of around 100 caterpillars in a tub and moved them to places I'd seen lots of Ragwort growing.

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Day 47: Heron on Platts Lodge

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Day 48: A Walk in the park, Oak Hill Park Accrington, it was owned by Thomas Hargreaves, head of the Broad Oak Print Works in 1815. In 1889 the estate belonged Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, who was married to Alice Liddell, the model for Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. It was opened as a park in 1893...

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Day 49: Poppy

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Day 50: A selection of bugs

1. A fly but not sure what variety... apparently it's possibly a St Marks Fly. Latin name is Bibio marci.
2. Crane Fly
3. Young Shield Bug. Not sure if that's it's dinner or just shed it's skin?

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Day 51: A Fluffy Bunny spotted near Christchurch Church - obviously a domesticated one and not a wild one

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Thwaites or Sam Smiths, still produce a pleasant enough pint of Dark Mild.
Used to get Sam Smiths in the "Greyhound" on Whalley drive down the road from the Stanley ground, last time I was over unfortunately the place had closed up.

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I'm still here and okay, just been a tad busy with stuff and then the clutch went on my car, almost caught up again, just todays bugs to look at and process....

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The Greyhound is still closed up. My Dad was the steward at the Top Club across the junction around 1988-89

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I am SO glad to hear that you are ok....and it was just life getting in the way...and as promised I won't complain about the bugs :)

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I like the cinnabar moth(yes I know it is a crawly thing....but I still like it)
I love the picture of Oakhill park....and the history bit as well. (My grandpa worked at Broad oak printworks)......I love, love, love the poppy....brilliant shot would look lovely blown up. Printed on canvas and hung on a lounge room wall.....or framed in black and on a wall.

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Binz, Rügen Mecklenburg Vorpommern, had to deliver some kit on Friday so set off thursday night, parked up then in the morning about 7ish had a walk on the beach before heading off to my first drop ........ I'm being paid for this!!! :)

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Took me a minute or two to identify picture number one,but once I had identified it I realised what a quacker it is.(any idea of the species)?
Your's as ever, The Luddite.

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[QUOTE=DaveinGermany parked up then in the morning about 7ish had a walk on the beach before heading off to my first drop ........ I'm being paid for this!!! :)[/QUOTE]

you can keep the seas dave. its water and its wet.

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A study in comfort.
Ruby and Rufus....just half an hour ago they were tearing lumps out of each othe, but then that is the essence of a brother and sister relationship isn't it?