Recent wildlife along the Old Railway Cutting

Some photos from Andy M's recent walks along the Old Railway Cutting.

A misty early morning view of the two churches I hadn't noticed before

 Finely-divided leaves of the very all Hemlock

A young Wren, skulking in the bushes

A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker -

easily distinguished from the adult by its fine red cap!

Red Campion

 White Campion

Lesser Whitethroat 

A pair of Lesser Whitethroat displaying

 Common Whitethroat - with brown back, chestnut primary feathers and greyer cheeks

 Greater Broomrape - a plant that parasitises other plants

 A Hare, lurking in the middle of the field of flax

 Tree Bumbleebee, on bramble flowers

 Small Heath butterfly -

showing the pale patch and blotches on the hind wing 

 Meadow Brown butterfly -

larger than the Small heath, and lacking the paler patch on the hind underwing 

Meadow Brown butterfly, the more uniformly dark brown male

 Meadow Brown butterfly, the female, with brighter orange patches

 A fly-past by a Cormorant

Fabulously red Poppy

 A young Blue Tit, learning how to forage

 A young Blue Tit

 A young Blue Tit, just looking cute!

 Small White butterfly

 Large Skipper - with the pale yellow blotches on the underwing

  Large Skipper - showing the larger dark 'sex brand' on the wing

 Large Skipper - with a distinctive curl to the tips of the antennae