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Rombald's Moor, West Yorkshire, a life story

0 Dick Hudson's pub
and the 'sunken path' 25 May 2012

1 Grouse on nest
taken in May 1962

2 Grouse eggs
exposed eggs in the nest, May 1962

3 Emperor Moth
Cartwright Hall leaflet

4 Moorland path towards Ilkley
paved down to the 'Hog Hill dip'

5 Mallard nest and eggs
May 1963

6 Green Hairstreak

7 Ruby Tiger cocoon

8 Ruby Tiger

9 Emperor Moth, female
10 May 2005

10 Burley Moor boundary wall
25 May 2012

11 Common Heath

12 Northern Eggar larva
3 May 2014

13 Heather burning
for Grouse moor management

14 Glorious heather in bloom
20 August 2015

15 Chevron

16 Beautiful Yellow Underwing

17 Angle Shades

18 unidentified caterpillar

19 Cock Red Grouse
10 April 2015

20 Distant Curlew
10 April 2015

21 Green Hairstreak

22 Hen Red Grouse
sitting on her nest, 3 May 2012

23 Notice for dog walkers

24 Peacock

25 Rombald's Moor
25 May 2015

26 The path up from
'Hog Hill dip' on 25 May 2012

27 Pierced grouse egg
25 May 2012

28 Green Hairstreak

29 Duke of Burgundy
Hawnby, North York Moors, 26 May 2013

30 Prinroses
at the Hawnby site

31 Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Spaunton Moor, Kirkbymoorside, also 26 May 2013

32 Fox Moth caterpillar

33 Northern Eggar larva
4 May 2015

34 Common lizard

35 Small Heath
20 August 2015

36 Twelve Apostles
Bronze Age Standing Stones, 4 May 2016

37 Heath Goldsmith Beetle
4 May 2016

38 Mistle Thrush

39 Hog Hill
3 May 2018

40 Emperor Moths, paired
3 May 2018

41 Emperor, the female

42 Small Heath
12 June 2022

43 Cotton grass
12 June 2022

44 Cotton Grass vista

45 Shrub invasion

46 Green Plovers
aka Lapwings and Peewits, letting us know their chicks were close by! 26 May 2023

47 Petrophora chlorosata
Brown Silver-line
Lepidigi
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