No rest when there's chicks to feed

Just been sent this great picture by a local friend who first thought it was a piece of Lego lying on the pavement. Mating lime hawks, Mimas tiliae. Plenty of limes (lindens) planted as street trees hereabouts. Sometimes I’m sent photos of the caterpillars.

A dream realised!! SCOPS OWL trapped in the Gully Fair Isle Bird Observatory today 🤯

Small Pearls shimmering at lunchtime today in Northumberland Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Waiting for the sun

The Yellow-eyed One - Happy 5th Anniversary Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

High on the Cumbrian Fells, the fussiest of fussy butterflies when it comes to weather and one of the hardest to catch perched cut a canny shape as it was frozen in flight by the camera last Thursday - Mountain Ringlet, Grey Knotts, Cumbria Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Nectaring on Holy Island’s Valerians yesterday Butterfly Conservation 🦋

The clarts formerly known as Gosforth Subsidence Pond - no good for adult Dragonflies & Damselflies but came up trumps for waders - 2LRP & a Green Sand at lunchtime today Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Second helpings - the Green Sand at Gosforth Subsidence Pond on Thursday evening, no further sign of the LRPs though Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Large Heaths out and about in Northumberland today Butterfly Conservation 🦋

A splash of colour - female Emperor ovipositing yesterday at Banks Pond near Dinnington, Northumberland

Not showing its spots, Four Spot Chaser from a different perspective yesterday, Banks Pond near Dinnington, Nthld

Barn Owl out hunting around Gosforth earlier this evening

Great to find a Lesser Emperor at Cheswick, Nthld, today - a male was hawking over Bramble and Hawthorn next to the England Coast Path by the pool nr Cheswick, too fast for my camera and I last saw it when it was seen off by a male Emperor patrolling the shore below (pictured)

If there's any animal that can always instil the feeling of happiness in me, it's got to be Common Blue Butterflies - even when they only show their underwings - Branton Gravel Pits this afternoon Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Bossing the water - male Emperor at Gosforth Nature Reserve today

A quiet day on Holy Island today with Richard Drew 6-7 Willow Warbler and singles of Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat and Yellow Wagtail were the migrant passerines that gave themselves up Nice to see fledged Sedgies & some butterfly magic between the ebb and flowing misty spells

A herringbone of Cirrocumulus Cloud over Gosforth Garden Village this evening