It was a day spent realigning the fence that separates our garden with our neighbours and also adding a reed screen in an attempt to stop Ted from escaping, which he did briefly!!
So in between digging out posts and repositioning them I did get to see a bit of wildlife in and around the garden. Just the one Swallow seen which circled overhead, before heading south.
In the garden were a few Large Whites, a mating pair of Small Whites and a Small Heath. The latter the first I have seen in the garden.
Talking about firsts I also came across a Speckled Bush-cricket, which I have seen plenty of, on my travels but never in the garden before. There were also quite a few Common Green Grasshoppers.
A Hummingbird Hawk-moth visited the garden very briefly before heading up and over the neighbours garage.
On the Marrow leaf the 3 amigos are still present. Sorry that would be the 22-Spot Ladybirds. Why they have chosen one Marrow plant and have stuck to the same leaf now for a couple of weeks, is anybodies guess.
Just two hoverflies seen a single Tapered Dronefly on the Valerian and a Helophilus pendulus (The Footballer) laying eggs in the water butt.
And lastly there were two bees, possibly Sweat Bees and a unidentified bug on the ragwort.
Three insects and apart from two of them being possibly Sweat Bees, the third insect under the bee sp on the right.......
............is a bit of a mystery as well. Even inverting the image doesn't really help.
This is a female Large White butterfly
This is a Tapered Dronefly (Eristalis pertinax)
There were quite a few Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus) in the garden today.
Here is another one.
Not a grasshopper but a cricket. This is a Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) and the first I have seen in the garden.
22-spot Ladybird (Psyllobora 22-punctata) or should that be 66-spot Ladybirds