Richard Evans

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#Butterflies, wildflower meadow restoration in Lancaster and the Lune valley. More information on our restoration of Hermitage Field at https://hermitagefieldcommunitymeadow.com #wildflowers #rewilding

A female Common Blue butterfly with underwings mottled with flecks of brown and orange, sitting on the yellow flower of Bird's-foot Trefoil against a background of green grass stems and the dried seedpods of Yellow Rattle.
Two butterflies feeding on lilac-coloured scabious flowers. At the top is a Small Tortoiseshell with wings of bright orange, with black and yellow spots at the top of the forewing and small blue spots along the bottom of the wing. At the bottom is a Dark Green Fritillary – also an orange butterfly, but with many black spots and dashes on its wings.
A White-letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album). It's a small brown butterfly with ragged black wing tips, a scarlet zig-zag line just inside the black, and two thin white lines crossing the undersides of the wings, resembling a letter 'w'. It's perched on the silvery-blue flower head of Eryngium × olivierianum 'Big Blue'.
Pink spikes of Common Spotted-orchid, perhaps showing signs of hybridisation with Southern Marsh Orchid, growing through bright green grasses with a scattering of yellow Meadow Buttercups. In the background is a block of flats, some urban woodland, a group of Victorian houses and the distant dome of the Ashton Memorial in Lancaster's Williamson Park. The grey sky threatens rain.
An orange and black Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterfly resting on the surface of a peat bog, with green and russet bog vegetation, including sphagnum mosses and insectivorous sundew plants.
A fresh Marsh Fritillary butterfly with a chequer-board wing pattern of orange, brown and cream perched on a the pale-green bud of an unfurling bracken leaf.
A Clouded Yellow butterfly showing its underwings of soft greenish-yellow dotted with brown and white spots is nectaring on Red Clover against a background of green grasses.
4 orange and black Small Tortoiseshell butterflies nectaring on the purple flowers of a buddleia growing between some rusty iron railings.
A male Brimstone butterfly showing the yellow/green undersides of its wings taking nectar from pale lilac-coloured buddleia flowers.
A small orange, yellow and black hoverfly taking nectar from a white verbascum plant with purple anthers.
Short video of a garden plant, Eryngium 'Big blue' – a sea holly with spiky grey/blue leaves and powder-blue flowers – showing many different pollinators taking nectar and pollen.
A black, brown and yellow fly with large yellow blobs on its head, a narrow waist and long, slightly bulbous, curved thorax. It's taking nectar from a pale mauve Field Scabious.
2 copulating white butterflies, showing the very pale creamy yellow undersides to their wings, against a background of garden flowers in creams, pinks and mauves.
Pink spires of Common Spotted-orchids against a green, grassy backdrop. There is a black and red burnet moth (Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet Moth) perched on the seedhead of Ribwort Plantain.
Pink spires of Common Spotted-orchids against a background of green and yellow, from grasses, buttercups and rattle, with the small crimson flowers of Great Burnet above the sward.
Pink spires of Common Spotted-orchids against a background of green and yellow, from grasses, buttercups and rattle.
A Snout moth, with open triangular-looking wings. Very dark-looking from a distance, but up close you can see a prominent brown bar across the forewings.
A wildflower meadow with the purple flowerheads of Melancholy Thistle, a russet spike of Common Sorrel, the soft blues of Meadow Crane's-bill and the yellow of Meadow Buttercup and Rattle.
A Large Skipper butterfly showing its half-open wings with a chequerboard pattern of brown and gold, sitting on a yellow butterfly flower.
A large round fruit cake with two rings of marzipan and 6 small speckled chocolate eggs in the middle – sitting on a red cake tray.
An early-season green sward in a wildflower meadow, showing the prominent leaf rosettes of Melancholy Thistle.
Close-up photo of a green sward with a very large number of Yellow Rattle seedlings, intermixed with Ribwort Plantain, Meadow Buttercup, Red Clover and Bird's-foot Trefoil.
Three slices of Hazelnut Shortbread on a blue plate sitting on a wooden table-top.
Three council workers wearing yellow high-viz jackets and orange safety helmets coppicing willow in Miss Whalley's Field in Lancaster, UK. The ground is thick with frost, the sky is blue and you can just the dome of the Ashton Memorial in Williamson Park poking up on the left side of the image.
A council worker wearing a yellow high-viz jacket and orange safety helmet operating an orange brashing machine during willow coppicing work in Miss Whalley's Field in Lancaster, UK. The ground is thick with frost, the sky is blue.
Three council workers wearing yellow high-viz jackets and orange safety helmets operating an orange brashing machine during willow coppicing work in Miss Whalley's Field in Lancaster, UK. The ground is thick with frost, the sky is blue and you can just see the tower of Lancaster's Priory Church on the skyline.
A loaf of bread with two slices, showing raisins, green pistachios, ginger and citrus peel.
A steep grassy bank with a carpet of yellow Bird's-foot Trefoil, purple Selfheal and White Clover.
'The Lots', Silverdale in Lancashire. A grassy field covered in the purple spikes of Green-winged and Early Purple Orchids, with the pink flowers of Red Clover and yellow of Mouse-ear Hawkweed. In the background is Morecambe Bay.
Aurora Borealis with a curtain of red showing against black tree sillouettes.
Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) on a Yellow Rattle flower in a garden meadow.
A Duke of Burgundy butterfly (Hamearis lucina) showing its brown and white chequer-board underwing pattern. The butterfly has settles on a frond of green bracken.
Large Skipper butterfly resting on a Yellow Rattle flower in our garden mini-meadow.
The torn pink flowers of Ragged Robin, Silene flos-cuculi, flowering on 15 May this year in Miss Whalley's Field, Lancaster.
Deep purple of Southern Marsh Orchid.
An urban field in Lancaster, UK in June 2024, showing a variety of fine grasses, the yellow of Meadow Buttercup, purple Melancholy Thistle, white Oxeye Daisy and blue of Meadow Crane's-bill.
Hermitage Field Community Meadow at the Crook O'Lune in north Lancashire, on 17 June 2024. The image shows a restored hay meadow with yellow Cat's-ear, the white of Oxeye Daisy and Eyebright and the deep pink of Red Clover. Photo by Erica Sarney.
Southern Marsh Orchid, showing deep purple colour, in a damp grassy field.
Melancholy Thistle flowers in June 2022. In the background there is some Meadow Crane's-bill.
Blue-purple flowers of Bush Vetch with the yellow of Meadow Buttercup.
Deep pink flowers of Southern Marsh Orchid.
Yellow flowers of Flag Iris
Red Campion with rich pink flowers.
Pink flowers of Ragged Robin with a Small White butterfly nectaring.
Miss Whalley's Field in Lancaster on 15 May 2024. In the foreground, an open meadow with the yellow flowers of Meadow Buttercup and Rattle. In the background, Lancaster's Priory Church and Castle.
A lush green banking in Hulne Park, Alnwick. With male Orange-tip butterfly nectaring on Bugle. Also Primrose, Water Avens and Meadowsweet.
A phalanx of pottery garden gnomes lined up on a wall in Bardon Mill, Northumberland.
Pink-orange flowers of Water Avens in Miss Whalley's Field, Lancaster, UK
Violet-pink flower of Bush Vetch in Miss Whalley's Field, Lancaster, UK
Pink flower of Common Vetch in Miss Whalley's Field, Lancaster, UK
A pink Ragged Robin flowering on the 2nd of May in Miss Whalley's Field, Lancaster, UK.
Green Hairstreak butterfly perched on bilberry at Birk Bank, near Lancaster, in the Forest of Bowland.
A purple Snake's-head fritillary with a chequerboard pattern in the flower, growing through grass.
White flowers of Wood Anemone and yellow Lesser Celandine carpet the woodland floor on the Sizergh estate in south Cumbria.
Bungalow and hedgerow in heavy snow, Dunchideock, Devon, 1978.
Purple alliums flowering in the garden border.
Booths receipt saying that I bought Guinea Pigs. Couldn't find them in my shopping bag though.
Sourdough loaf on a bread board. The flour-dusted surface of the bread is slashed 6 times to reveal a darker brown crust underneath.
A cement sculpture by Anthony Padgett commemorating the 21 Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on the sands of Hest Bank in Morecambe Bay in 2004. Morecambe Bay can be seen behind the sculpture, the shallow water gleaming in the sun.
7 jars of newly-bottled Seville orange marmalade on the kitchen counter.