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yesterday 12-06-2021
First Meadow brown of the year seen plus one torn Red Admiral a tiny frog.
Four Cattle Egrets in full summer plumage.

On the road to Draycott Sleights Fair numbers of Common blue, they were very active and not inclined to pose for the camera, one that did. Silver Y (Autographa gamma)  ? and a great number of these orchids


Friday the thirteenth 13-06-2021 bought my first Large Skipper One Brimstone

Help needed with this orchid please and the long legged Spider A few Four spotted chaser.
first female Black tailed skimmer
A view of the water meadows and Quaking grass
Shapwick Heath NNR. Finally does anyone recognise this plant.

Would agree with your ' Silver Y ? ' identification .
The ' great number of orchids seen ' is Common Spotted Orchid .
Help needed , I believe is the Southern Marsh Orchid .
Long-legged Spider is the Nursery Web Spider / Pisaura mirabilis .
Your first Black-tailed Skimmer could have been a female , but also could have been a male , as immatures of both sexes
are coloured the same , and the male's abdomen ' blues ' as they mature , the same with the Broad-bodied Chaser .
I would suggest a garden escape for the last shot , and possibly of the Geranium / Cranesbill family .

Cheers Greenie

Greenie Thanks for you comments, yesterday my wife and I took a trip to Haddon Hill Exmoor hoping to see the Heath Fritillary but without success, however Small Heaths were plentiful plus a few moths, we then took a very narrow back road to Tarr Steps, by chance I noted growing at the side of the road a  Geranium plant matching the one in the picture previous posted, consulting my Concise Flora in colour I found a possible match  (cranesbill) geranium sanguineum.
We continued to Tarr Steps, the staycationers were out in forch , onto Withypool and had lunch at the Royal Oak were R D Blackmoor wrote Lorna Doone,
 An exhausting and frustrating day nevertheless it was a beautiful day to visit Exmoor.
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Hi, I think your long-legged Spider is a Tetragnatha sp.