Was hoping to walk down to Bennerley yesterday but spent that long at Awsworth on the way down I never made it. What a fantastic quiet area for butterflies and moths. I’ve added a Google Street View interactive map at the bottom of how to get to the site (its off Awsworth Lane), that area has been good for Little Owl in the past too.
Once you’re up on the old railway embankment there is a nice walk along the wooded path, I think it leads all the way to Kimberley. There is a field to the left after a while (leads down to the Hogs Head) which also had quite a few butterflies.
I hardly saw any birds in the couple of hours I was out, but I did see Essex, Small and Large Skippers, Speckled Wood, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Green-veined White and Large White butterflies, as well as Six and Five Spot Burnet Moths. Macabrely I also found a recently dead mole by the side of the path.
