Cambridge Camera Club - Trip to Dorset. Post#02 - Powerstock Nature Reserve

Day 2 on the Dorset Trip.  Fortified with a full English Breakfast we decided to take a trip to the Powerstock Nature Reserve. Not far from Kingcombe where we were staying. The weather was overcast which was not a favorite condition of many insects etc.




Orchids

 

 

Insects etc.
A Beetle - Calosoma Inquisitor

 

 

Flies ...

 

 

 
 

Spiders - Sorry to my friends who do not like these !!!

 

Slow Worm... Oh no its not !!! Its a Grass Snake. Still moves quickly :)

The Nature Reserve Rangers but out bits of corrugated tin for wildlife to creep under. Here is a picture of what was almost a Slow Worm, as you can see, its not very slow at all :)

 

Shapes in Nature ...... 

Cuckoo Spit.
Frog-hoppers are black insect with orange bands and red legs but are best known for the nymph stage that produce a cover of frothed-up plant sap resembling spit. These nymphs are commonly known as spittle-bugs and their froth as cuckoo spit, frog spit or snake spit.

 

Snail Shell

 

 

 Beautiful Grasses

Someones Lunch ....

 

This grass has leaves popping out of the stem, very delicate.

 

 

 

Dragon Flies - Four Spotted Chaser.
We had lunch around one of the ponds and spent about an hour NOT succeeding to photograph the dragon flies in flight. Towards the end I did manage to get a coupe of shots of stationary Dragon Flies sitting on a blade of grass. 

 

 

Six Spot Burnet Moth. The Antennae are clubbed - most moths have 'clean ends' to the Antennae whereas Butterflies normally have a bulbous end.

 

Speckled Wood Butterfly