Wingate Quarry.

 After a visit to Bishop Middleham, we then went onto Wingate Quarry. Not many Marbled White out but I did manage to get some images of the two we saw. On the way back home, we stopped off at Chester-le-Street in the hope of seeing White-letter Hairstreak I was lucky enough to see one.

Marbled White Butterfly.

Blackneck Moth.

Weevils.

Click Beetle.

White-letter Hairstreak.

Large Skipper.

Ringlet.

Yellow Shell Moth.

Garden Grass Veneer.

Possibly Pammene fasciana Moth.

Banded Demoiselle.

Orange Ladybird.

Sawfly.

Burdon Moor

 Still way behind with the processing of all the images (I haven’t even seen some of them yet) I have taken over the last couple of months so much so that these go way back to June at Burdon Moor.

Grasshopper.

Two-spot Ladybird.

Common Rhogogaster.

Black-backed Sawfly.

7-spot Ladybird.

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moth.

There were quite a few Large Skippers around.

Scaeva selenitica hovering.

Meadow Brown Butterfly.

Bumblebee coming into land on a Foxglove.

Kibblesworth Brick Works…

 …or Bowes Valley Nature Reserve is a great place for Dragonflies so around the middle of last month my wife and I had a walk around the pond to see what was there. We weren’t disappointed.

Female Emperor Dragonfly.

She landed on the pond

And began to lay eggs.

She was laying eggs in several places.

Male Emperor Dragonfly.

They were always patrolling

So, getting one in a perched position was a bonus.

Emperor with an Azure Damselfly flying close by.

An Emperor with a Four-spotted Chaser above.

Four-spotted Chaser.

One of them kept landing in the same place sometimes with prey.

Black-tailed Skimmer.

Burnet Moth.

Small Skipper.

Large Skipper.

Shaded Broad-bar Moth.

Grasshopper.

Little Grebe humbug.

Little Grebe.