Wakeham
Another very warm day and some good highlights this afternoon with a Small Heath, a Red Admiral and a female Common Darter along the track, and then further along in the Private Nature Reserve there were 2 Stock Doves, the latter the first I have seen here in Wakeham.
In amongst the 100's of grasshoppers I came across a Speckled Bush-cricket.
Here are a few images from today:
Looking back down the track towards the gate at Wakeham and along here there was.........
..........this female Common Darter
Its not often you can get this close, but I was only a few inches away when I took this photo.
One of 5 Common Blues in the meadows and along the track.
And there are still dozens of Six-Spot Burnet moths about.
A pair of Swollen-thighed Beetles. The male is on the right.
A Common Red Soldier Beetle
A male Speckled Bush-cricket
A Marmalade Hoverfly at rest and.....
........taking off. You can just about see the wings angled for lift off.
And an Amblyteles armatorius Parasitic Wasp.
Birds Recorded: Herring Gull, 2 Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Dunnock, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow and House Sparrow.
Butterflies Recorded: Large White, Green-veined White, 1 Small Heath, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White, Red Admiral and Common Blue.
Moths Recorded: Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
Bees Recorded: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum) and Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded: 1 Amblyteles armatorius
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded: Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
Hoverflies Recorded: Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus), Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta), Dead Head Fly (Myathropa florea) and a Hornet Mimic Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded: Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis) and Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Slugs and Snails Recorded: White-lipped Banded Snail (Cepaea hortensis) and a Garden Snail (Cornu aspersa)
Grasshoppers and Crickets Recorded: Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus), Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) and a Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)