Alan Gray

Married to @Gezziebell Family, Nature, Walks, Books, Red Wine, Food & more…..

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Cayton today, fossilised seabed, sandwich tern, fishing razorbill, burnet moths

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More garden pond excitement today.
Checked yesterday’s nymph at 1028 & it was still there.
By 1051 it was emerging.
By 1120 free of the exuvia.
Turns out this time to be a Common Darter!
Chuffed!

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@MarburyBirds Likewise 😊

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Kiplingcotes is also interesting for botanical reasons.
Pyramidal orchid, biting stonecrop, common toadflax & autumn gentian pictured

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Kiplingcotes today & got our first Marbled Whites of the year.

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@Pjkjkdhk Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
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@LittleBustards Happy birthday Ted, hope you enjoyed your day 👍😊

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A pop to Tophill N end this afternoon
Rhinoceros beetle, small skipper, dozy in the heat, common whitethroat

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@Pjkjkdhk I made a meal of that one!

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Large red damselfly on our pond again today

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For any malacologists out there, this beautiful green cellar slug was crawling up our window this morning 💚

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@_Stickybeak 😎

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@WouterFMD Mooi! 👍

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@Pjkjkdhk 👏

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Green Sandpiper at Tophill this afternoon

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Old Fall loop today