Longbeach Farm Upwell - Nurture Nature

AKA - (Six acres and not a clue!) My personal diary of the comings and goings of wildlife during the development of my little piece of England. '...There shall be in that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.' (R. Brooke)

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Azure Damselfly and White-tail bee

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Common red soldier beetle

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A Facinated Oxeye Daisy!

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  Well I never... Apparently this us what is known as a 'Facinated' flower. It's a quite rare event caused by a number of possib...

Scarce Chaser Dragonfly

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This is a first for me either at Longbeach Farm or anywhere. Pleased to add another species of dragonfly to the list of Longbeach residents....

Orange Tip, male and female comparison.

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 Male with Orange Tipped Wings Female with Grey Black tipped wings. Easy to confuse with Large and Small White butterflies if you are not pa...

Small White Butterfly on Red Clover

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Bladder Campion in bud.

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Yellow Sweet Clover

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  Melilotus officinalis, Yellow Sweet Clover, another new discovery in the meadow.
Saturday, 21 May 2022

Too Early for the Navtivity..

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Quite by chance I uncovered this Star of Bethlehem wild flower in the tall meadow grass,  I'm confident that it predates my sowing of my...

Barn Owls, Cuckoo's and Doves

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  Delighted to see the Barn Owl hunting round the pond and over the meadow. I have deliberately left areas of uncut meadow and grass to allo...
Thursday, 19 May 2022

Dragonfly Emergent Exoskeleton

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  Returned home from work and noticed that there were at least 6 Emperor dragonfly cases on the reedmace and flowering rush plants in the po...
Saturday, 14 May 2022

Common Blue

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  Common Blue on black medic; this male seems to have a section of its wing missing.

Green-veined White Butterfly

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Brown Argus pair. The Brown, but Blue butterfly.

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  A mating pair of Brown Argus. Tiny little butterflies but a delight to have about the meadow. Both male and female have mainly brown upper...

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  Hawk's-beard - Aetheorhiza bulbosa Borage! You can use these pretty blue flowers as a nice garnish in a ice cold jug of Pimms or the f...
Friday, 13 May 2022

Yellow Rattle, Simple things, please simple...

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Some people get excited about a new car, or a surprise win on the lotto, not me, after years of reading about the 'meadow maker', my...
Sunday, 8 May 2022

Blood-vien Moth

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Found this while walking round the cut grass path through the meadow. Not a rare moth but my first official recording of it at Longbeach Far...

Flowers, Toads, Geese and Ducklings...

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 Arriving home after work I took my customary walk around the pond and meadow to see what was new, what was coming into bloom and what was p...
Sunday, 24 April 2022

Yellow Rattle and Bogbean - two new plant species in the reserve.

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This rather unobtrusive looking plant is actually one of several Yellow rattle seedlings that have germinated from my seed sowing efforts la...
Saturday, 23 April 2022

Moorhen Eggs at Easter

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  Six beautifully marked eggs from our resident Moorhen. Sadly on checking the nest 2 days later all eggs were gone... Possibly fox or badge...
Sunday, 17 April 2022

Ninespine Stickleback.

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Stickleback in a beer bottle. Despite making a conscious decision not to stock the pond with fish in order to make the pond as attractive to...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

Orange tip and Comma

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  Orange Tip - rarely sits still for long! Comma - much more accommodating and not so camera shy.
Friday, 15 April 2022

Butterflies and Beginnings

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Beautiful spring day with lots of butterfly action. Today I saw Eight different species: Speckled Wood, Peacock, Tortoiseshell, Large White,...
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