Wheatley Valley

About an hour and a half this afternoon on the grassland area of the former landfill site adjacent to Shroggs Road. Rewarded with a good few butterflies and moths with guestimates on numbers as I could have found a lot more, if I'd been there all afternoon !.

Loads of Ringlets - too many to count they were all over the place. Surprising how difficult these were to photograph today. They wouldn't stay still for long then when they did they generally disappeared into the base of the long grass. Perhaps with the grass being so dry is maybe the reason for that (??)
30+ Meadow Browns
30+ Large Skipper
30+ Small Skipper
1 Small White
1 Speckled Wood

A few day flying moths as well including Grass-veneer types flitting about through the long grasses but I had to let them go.
4+ Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moths
6+ Timothy Tortrix
20+ Straw Dots

 Straw Dot

Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet

 

Well done to Calderdale Countryside for the recent improvements there for pedestrians and the progress made to deter scramblers !