Well its Day 6 and the trucks keep coming to take the sludge away from Nythe Pool. Tomorrow will see the last trucks pull up and then it will all be over.
Here are a few images from today plus a few insects seen around the pool and wood including a new one for me Brassy Willow Beetles (Phratora vitellinae). Under the Willows overhanging Dorcan Stream dozens of these beetles have been blown off the trees and landed on the brambles.
The penultimate day........
........still a few mud piles to go.......
.....but with the trucks .......
.....coming back and forth, they've done well to get rid of tons of sludge.
A Hawthorn in full bloom.
One of just 2 Speckled Woods seen today. But then it was bitterly cold in the northerly wind. A male Orange-tip was the only other butterfly I saw today.
A Brassy Willow Beetle (Phratora vitellinae). I dont think I would have ever found this if it wasn't for the strong winds blowing them off the Willow above. There were dozens of these scattered all over the brambles below.
