The colour ranges from silvery grey to velvety black with a purple tinge, a medium-sized moth that can be seen on warm days throughout the year, although it is most common during the late summer.

 This migrant a common visitor in flowery grasslands, sand dunes and gardens.

 It can often be seen flying during the daytime, feeding on nectar from plants, such as buddleia and lavender, but also flies at night.

The Large Yellow Underwing is a very common, large, brown moth, with orangey-yellow hindwings bordered with black.

It holds its wings folded back, flat along the body, and scuttles about on the floor like a mouse.

Adults fly from June right through to November, and often come to lights at night.

They rest during the day, but will flash their bright hindwings if disturbed to surprise and scare-off predators

The caterpillars feed on a wide range of plants, including grasses and Dock leaves, and hibernate over winter.

 It is found almost everywhere.

Soldier Beetle making an army.

Another Soldier Beetle trying its luck

Brimstone Moth

Six-Spot Burnet

Common Footman

Kenfig Nature Reserve 2 miles from the small coastal town of Porthcawl, South Wales.

The site is made up of 100 acres of sand dunes with a large pool being the focal point for wildlife.

The dunes and wildflower areas attract lots of Butterflies and moths.

 I made my way to the reserve from Porthcawl using the coastal path, stopping several times to take Photographs.

My main interest being the Common Blue Butterflies which were very active even in the strong wind.

Too my surprise crossing the path in front of me was an Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar.

Not sure on the ID on this butterfly I think it’s a Dark Green Fritillary.

I will send it to Birdguides for ID and put in on Flickr someone will put the correct name to it.

Shots taken at Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve

Fleetwood at high tide produced lots of opportunities to get close up shots of wading birds

however getting good shots in harsh light is another matter.

Ring Plover chick

Dunlin

Turnstone

Sanderling

Slightly smaller and slimmer than a blackbird - male ring ouzels are particularly distinctive with their black plumage with a pale wing

panel and striking white breast band. The ring ouzel is primarily a bird of the uplands, where it breeds mainly in steep sided valleys,

crags and gullies.

Strong sunlight made getting any good photographs difficult

Moles can dig 20 metres of tunnel every day, leaving mounds of earth on the surface as they excavate their tunnels.

Chambers within the tunnel are lined with grass used for nesting during periods of rest.

Moles feed mainly on earthworms, but they also eat a variety of invertebrates, as well as snakes and lizards.

Habitat: deciduous woodland and grassland .

The Marbled White is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Found across most of Europe, south Russia, Asia Minor and Iran.

There is an isolated population in Japan. It is not found in Ireland, North Britain, Scandinavia and Portugal or Spain.

Gonepteryx cleopatra is a medium sized butterfly with a wingspan of about 50-70 mm (2.0-2.8 inch). It is a sexually dimorphic species - the female has pale yellow or greenish wings, the male is darker yellow with an orange patch on the forewing.

Both sexes have a forewing apical hook and brown dots in the center of each wing, and the underside of wings is light greenish yellow.

The greenish colour, the shape and the pronounced venation on the hindwings give to these butterflies a good camouflage, making them resemble just leaves.

Swallowtails are striking butterflies and strong fast flyers. The large yellow and black wings have a protruding tail, resembling that of a swallow. With a wingspan of around 10 centimetres, they are the largest resident butterfly in the UK. Britain has its own race of swallowtails (Papilio machaon britannicus) that's only found in the fens and marshes of the Norfolk Broads.

The European race (Papilio machaon gorganus) is quite common and is found all over Europe, Asia and even North America. Swallowtails brood once, twice or even three times in a year.

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The Dark-edged Bee-fly looks rather like a bumblebee, with a long, straight proboscis that it uses to feed on nectar from

spring flowers such as primroses and violets. It is on the wing in the early spring, when it can often be seen in sunny patches.

In flight, it is even more like a bee as it produces a high-pitched buzz.

This species is common, but the Heath and Mottled Bee-flies, are classified as Priority Species in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.