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High Batts Nature Reserve, Lower Ure Valley, North Yorkshire

High Batts is a small, private nature resure in the lower Ure valley. It has an amazing diversity of wildlife, some of which I have managed to photograph.
I generally upload the camera/lens/technical info to each shot but today it seemed a bit of a work-up so…..
All images taken with Nikon D500 & 300mm pf lens ( I use a 1.4tc sometimes) I generally shoot at f/5.6 & 1250s for wildlife light allowing
All images are my own and copyright is mine - please don’t abuse this.
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Large Skipper - the first I’ve seen this year!
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Large Skipper - the first I’ve seen this year!

Male Common Darter - first of the year.
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Male Common Darter - first of the year.

Common Darter - male!
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Common Darter - male!

Banded Demoiselle - male. 
I was struck by the striking pose adopted by this beautiful male!  Getting home to find I’d caught a reflection too, was the icing on the cake!
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Banded Demoiselle - male.
I was struck by the striking pose adopted by this beautiful male! Getting home to find I’d caught a reflection too, was the icing on the cake!

Banded Demoiselle - male.
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Banded Demoiselle - male.

Banded Demoiselle - female - stunning metallic colours!
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Banded Demoiselle - female - stunning metallic colours!

Four-spotted Chaser - starting to look over-mature!
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Four-spotted Chaser - starting to look over-mature!

Female Banded Demoiselle
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Female Banded Demoiselle

Male Four-spotted Chaser - so named for the four dark spots across each pair of wings.
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Male Four-spotted Chaser - so named for the four dark spots across each pair of wings.

Male Four-spotted Chaser
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Male Four-spotted Chaser

Brimstone butterfly on Red Campion
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Brimstone butterfly on Red Campion

Flag Iris with an unidentified bug!
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Flag Iris with an unidentified bug!

Female Banded Demoiselle facing off with a male Common Blue Damselfly
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Female Banded Demoiselle facing off with a male Common Blue Damselfly

Female Banded Demoiselle
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Female Banded Demoiselle

Male Banded Demoiselle
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Male Banded Demoiselle

Female Four-spotted Chaser of the Praenubila form - shown by the ‘bleeding’ of the dark spots on the wings.
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Female Four-spotted Chaser of the Praenubila form - shown by the ‘bleeding’ of the dark spots on the wings.

Female Four-spotted Chaser of the Praenubila form.
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Female Four-spotted Chaser of the Praenubila form.

Male Banded Demoiselle
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Male Banded Demoiselle

Common Blue Damselflies
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Common Blue Damselflies

Common Blue Damselfly
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Common Blue Damselfly

Female Banded Demoiselle
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Female Banded Demoiselle

Female Azure Damselfly
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Female Azure Damselfly

Male Banded Demoiselle
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Male Banded Demoiselle

Immature female Common Blue Damselfly
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Immature female Common Blue Damselfly

Female Azure Damselfly
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Female Azure Damselfly

Male Azure Damselfly
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Male Azure Damselfly

Nursery Web Spider
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Nursery Web Spider

Male Banded Demoiselle
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Male Banded Demoiselle

Female Broad-bodied Chaser
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Female Broad-bodied Chaser

Female Broad-bodied Chaser
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Female Broad-bodied Chaser

Female Broad-bodied Chaser
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Female Broad-bodied Chaser

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Male Common Blue Damselfly
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Male Common Blue Damselfly

Male Common Blue Damselfly
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Male Common Blue Damselfly

Male Scorpion Fly - easy to see why so named!
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Male Scorpion Fly - easy to see why so named!

Cecropia vulnerata - Froghopper!
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Cecropia vulnerata - Froghopper!

Wasp beetle
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Wasp beetle

Native 7 spot Ladybird
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Native 7 spot Ladybird

Two’s company!
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Two’s company!

Comma butterfly
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Comma butterfly

Comma butterfly
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Comma butterfly

Cardinal beetle
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Cardinal beetle

Cardinal beetle
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Cardinal beetle

Female Scorpion Fly
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Female Scorpion Fly

Crane fly
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Crane fly

Large Red Damselfly
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Large Red Damselfly

Carder Bee
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Carder Bee

Male Azure Damselfly
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Male Azure Damselfly

Azure Damselflies
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Azure Damselflies

Mint moth
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Mint moth

Cardinal beetle
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Cardinal beetle

Soldier beetle
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Soldier beetle

Wild Garlic about to flower!
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Wild Garlic about to flower!

A lonely snail
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A lonely snail

Harlequins
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Harlequins

Alder-leaf beetle
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Alder-leaf beetle

Alder-leaf beetle
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Alder-leaf beetle

Long-tailed Tit
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Long-tailed Tit

Long-tailed Tit
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Long-tailed Tit

Siskin
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Siskin

Siskin
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Siskin

Siskin
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Siskin

Siskin (male)
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Siskin (male)

Siskin (female)
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Siskin (female)

Siskin
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Siskin

Siskin
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Siskin

Redpoll
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Redpoll

Redpoll
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Redpoll

Redpoll
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Redpoll

Redpoll
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Redpoll

Redpoll
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Redpoll

Redpoll
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Redpoll

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