I went back to Southport yesterday, it was cool at first then the Sun came out of the clouds and the weather was perfect.
We thought we'd visit Sandhills NNR first, when we got to the car park though we were stunned to find a charge of £4 being posted for the day on a normally free car park, needless to say we parked some where else. Which meant a rather longer walk.
They don't seem to under stand these people that we don't all have young families and want to stay all day on a beech, which is what was happening, the small car park is only a short distance from the beech where they charge £4 for driving onto, it doesn't take a genius to work out what their plan was.
Anyway I took some shots of Grayling,they weren't in very good condition but still going strong , there were still some CB's about. We were going to stay a bit longer but some Gulls were swooping a round us and it got quite scary,
my Husband suggested we leave, it was only later we found out a couple of Hawks were attacking and had probably caught one near to where we were UGH!
We moved on to Marshside NR which is nearer to Southport , we climbed to the top of a Sand Dune and I took some shots of another Grayling (not very good ) I was climbing up at the time and the light was too Bright.
I took shots to the left of me and the right and forward to get an Idea of the Dunes, when we climbed down I found these two Common Blues mating, I was surprised but it was great to know we'd have a future species next year
Further into the dunes we came across Lots of Red Admirals and Tortoiseshells it was a good day out Goldie
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