It just gets warmer and warmer with today's high reaching 24.5 °C. There are still 100's of Marmalade Hoverflies in the back garden and joining them today were 1000's of tiny midge-like black flies.
Under the corrugated metal sheet there were two Slow-worms which were totally different in colour to each other. Photo below:
And overhead were 2 Swifts screeching away and a lone House Martin
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
2 Swift
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
2 Swift
1 House Martin
1 Pied Wagtail
2 Dunnock
1 Pied Wagtail
2 Dunnock
1 Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Magpie
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
This Woodpigeon was gobbling up the cherries at around 1 every 10 seconds. They will soon be gone at this rate.
And a juvenile Dunnock
Reptiles Recorded:
2 Slow-worm
Slow-worms. Interesting colours.
Frog
Common Frog in the small pond
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Large White
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Still plenty of Marmalade Hoverflies about
Here's another one coming into land on the Sweet William
And another Marmalade Hoverfly on one of the aquatic plants
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Flies sp
Lots of flies including this "orange" one.
Same as above but another individual.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Green Shieldbug instar (Palomena prasina)
Common Green Shieldbug and what looks like a 4th instar nymph
Ted and Benji:
Ted and Benji enjoying the shade in the back garden
And a rare photo of Benji chewing a piece of bark.
