Along the Trailway to Powerstock Village

We walked through Powerstock nature reserve along the trailway which leads to Powerstock and beyond.  It is a lovely walk, quite varied and includes the old bridges along the route.  There was plenty of butterflies and dragonflies out along this route.  The butterflies - Peacock, Red Admiral, Silverwashed Fritillary, Large White, Green-veined White, Gatekeeper, Tortoiseshell.  The dragonflies - Golden-ringed,  Migrant Hawker (male & female) Common Darter (male & female)  The wildflower, Hemp-agrimony at this time of year is a valuable source of food for the butterflies.  Powerstock is a lovely village, we stopped at the Three Horseshoe Inn for tea and coffee and then took a look at the Church.

 Peacock, not seen many of these this summer

Red Admiral, quite a few of these today

Silver-washed Fritillary, starting to look a little worn now

Gatekeeper, quite a lot of these today

View from the trailway

One of the bridges crossing over the trailway

Fungus

St Mary's church, Powerstock

One of the windows in St Mary's

Portland

We had a trip to Portland last Thursday, very windy making taking pictures of the butterflies a little difficult.   We kept our eyes open for the Little Owl and we were rewarded, it was my Partner, Malcolm, who spotted it.
  

 Little Owl, juvenile, nice to see that the Little Owls on Portland are breeding successfully

Chalkhill Blue butterfly

 A pair of Chalkhills mating

Common Blue butterfly

Migrant Hawker, male

Juvenile Starling taking a ride

My Local Patch, Morden Bog

 Plenty of wildlife on Morden Bog at this time of year, the Silver-studded Blue butterflies are out at the moment, plenty of dragonflies and damselflies are flying around, the heather is starting to come into flower and also there are loads of the sticky Round-leaved Sundew plant in the boggy areas.

 Silver-studded Blue butterfly

 Golden-ringed Dragonfly

 Common Darter (female)

This maybe the Biting Stonecrop but I am not sure, I am hoping someone on flickr can id this plant for me

Round-leaved Sundew