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A few weeks ago I visited the North Cave Wetlands Nature Reserve, with the evening sunshine licking at my heals.
It was a relaxing walk taking the track around the reserve, with swifts squealing and circling the sky, like small anchors in the sky; there were also great numbers of Sand Martins trawling over the lakes; and then there were lots of birds on the lakes to wonder at, and Black Headed Gulls circling over my head as I wondered on.
I even saw a few lingering butterflies: the Speckled Wood, Painted Lady and Large Skipper, but because of the floods and rainy weather it has taken me til this week to pay a daytime visit, and see all the butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies at their best, in full sun.
It was well worth the wait, although quite windy there were lots of the Common Blue Damselfly, then I saw a Broad Bodied Dragonfly, the male, with a blue abdomen, which is a large dragonfly and is quite impressive, and there were others which I am still pondering on with my reference book.
For butterflies, there were a great number of all the meadow butterflies: Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper and Small Skipper.
Butterfly Conservation has an offer on at the moment for a years free membership, which is well worth the effort of signing up. Why not visit the Yorkshire Branch website which is - www.yorkshirebutterflies.org - to get more information.
Rosemary Roach
Published on 19th July 2007 in News.
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