Cunnery Wood

Shibden Hall Road - spent nearly 2 hrs this afternoon in Cunnery Wood with thanks to Chris for doing the 'grand tour' of the woodland and meadow land. I've not been on that site since a long time ago when it was the Council's tree and shrub nursery. Fantastic habitat.

Perfect afternoon conditions for butterflies and other insects. Impossible to count so guestimates below are more appropriate ! Anything I've missed Chris ?

Small Skipper 10+
Holly Blue x 1 gave us the run-around a while till it landed on brambles 15m or so away
Small Copper 10+
Gatekeeper 10+
Large and Small Whites plentiful with just one or two Green-veined Whites in among
Speckled Wood 10+
Comma 10+
Peacock 20+
Small Tortoiseshell x 2
Red Admiral x 1
Ringlet - just a few but now looking pretty worn

Finally we managed to locate a few Purple Hairstreaks fluttering around the lower branches of some mature oak trees in the sunshine and occasionally landing on the leaves to give some reasonable views
We missed out on White-letter Hairstreak though they could be there as there are a few elms on site.

Moths
Light Emerald x 1
Udea lutealis x 1
Silver Y x 4
? ermine caterpillars
Cinnabar caterpillars on Ragwort
One or two unidentified Grasshoppers
Unidentified micro in the tunnel was difficult to photograph and an egg case of a large spider (what was the spider Chris ?)

 unidentified - ermine moth caterpillars ?

 

 Unidentified Grashopper sp.

 

 Silver Y

 Udea lutialis

 

Cinnabar caterpillars