On a fine warm summers day there is no finer place to be than in a Northumberland Dune system. Today we visited Birling Links a few miles down the road from us. Its a good spot as it takes a bit of a walk to get there, so tourists are few and far between.
Our goals today were to check out the flora and try to get a photo of the Wolf Spider Arctosa perita that we saw last year but without a macro lens. No birds at all went into the notebook, probably because my head was down and eyes were focussed to under a metre. Its probably best to let the photos do the talking...
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| View North towards Alnmouth. |
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| Dune flora reminds me of the machair in the Hebrides |
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| Bee Orchid |
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| Eyebright |
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| Restharrow |
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| Depressaria daucella caterpillar on Hemlock Water Dropwort |
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| Drinker moth caterpillar are common here. |
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| Not too sure but looks like an Ectimnius Digger Wasp with prey. |
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| Dune Chafer |
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| Garden Tiger caterpillar |
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| Micropterix aruncella |
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| Coastal Silver Stiletto Fly |
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| Coastal Silver Stiletto Fly |
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| One of the Spider Hunting Wasps poss Priocnemis parvula or Caliadurgus sp? Witha Wolf Spider |
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Yellow-tail Moth caterpillar, the first one of these larvae Ive seen. |
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| The main target, Arctosa perita found on the bare sandy patches. What a stunner... |
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