Dorset Walks

Friday August 28th 2009
Blacknoll Heath

list of species seen
© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio
Wasp Spider
Wasp Spider 		© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio
Common Blue Damselfly
Common Blue Damselfly 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Common Earthball
Common Earthball
© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Marsh Gentian
Marsh Gentian 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Common Blue
Common Blue 		© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio
Southern Hawker
Southern Hawker
© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Round-leaved Sundew
Round-leaved Sundew 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Great Burnet
Great Burnet 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Slow-worm
Slow-worm, about to give birth?
© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Female Common Darter
Female Common Darter 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Male Common Darter
Male Common Darter 		© Kay Mantripp/Nature Portfolio
Green-veined White
Green-veined White

The day's list...

Birds

Hobby
Kestrel
Buzzard (on the way back)
Wood Pigeon
Green Woodpecker (heard)
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Chaffinch


Reptiles

Slow-worm
 Butterflies

Meadow Brown
Gatekeeper
Speckled Wood
Wall
Large White
Small White
Green-veined White
Painted Lady
Common Blue




Other Insects

Southern Hawker
Common Darter
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Robber Fly
Sand Wasp
Wasp Spider (not an insect!) 		Plants

Bell Heather
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Broom
Cross-leaved Heath
Devilsbit Scabious
Eyebright
Great Burnet
Ling
Marsh Gentian
Oblong-leaved Sundew
Round-leaved Sundew
Silverweed
Western Gorse

Fungi

Boletus spp
Common Earthball

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