{"id":3160,"date":"2017-07-10T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:30:43","slug":"potteric-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"Potteric Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Banded demoiselle (male)<\/p><\/div>\n

Highlights of our July\u00a0field meeting at the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Potteric Carr reserve included a female marsh harrier hunting over Huxter Well Marsh; such a regular sight that it did little to disturb the herons, little egrets, lapwings, little grebes and great-crested grebes on the lagoon.<\/p>\n

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Small skipper<\/p><\/div>\n

We spent most of our morning in\u00a0Loversall Field where the dragonfly ponds attracted banded demoiselle, emerald, common blue and blue-tailed damselflies and four-spotted chaser and common darter dragonflies but the star of the show was a male emperor dragonfly, Britain’s largest species.<\/p>\n

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Brimstone butterfly (female)<\/p><\/div>\n

Skippers and ringlets were the most frequently seen butterflies but we also recorded commas, meadow browns, single male and female brimstones and a red admiral.<\/p>\n

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Four-banded longhorn beetles (Leptura quadrifasciata)<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to four-banded longhorn beetles\u00a0we saw soldier beetles,\u00a0Rhagonycha fulva<\/em> and click beetle. Whirligigs were gyrating on the surface of the ponds, with great-crested newts coming to the surface amongst the pondweed.<\/p>\n

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Large-flowered hemp-nettle<\/p><\/div>\n

Wild flowers included yellow-wort and this large-flowered hemp-nettle growing in the wild flower meadow area by the visitor centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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