I know I've said it before, but timing is everything and having dropped David off at the Gym again, Ted and I repeated the walk we did yesterday. This time there was very little sun, a stiff south easterly breeze and huge black clouds on the horizon. And as I thought, as soon as we finished our walk and picked David up, we headed home just as the heavens opened.
Main highlight today was recording both a Wall Brown and a Painted Lady
Birds Recorded:
Peregrine Falcon
Herring Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Skylark
20+ Swallow
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
5 Stonechat
Blackbird
1 Willow Warbler
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
One of many Swallows over the Top Fields
A youngster having a break
These Swallows are having a short rest in the Top Fields
By the Business Park were 5 juvenile Stonechats without an adult with them
Here are two juveniles a female and male on the right I presume.
And the other way round. The male on the left has a slightly deformed beak.
And a juvenile female Stonechat.
There's no mistaking this Linnet as a male
And the female has joined him on the left.
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White
1 Wall Brown
Meadow Brown
Gatekeeper
1 Red Admiral
1 Painted Lady
Large White
1 Wall Brown
Meadow Brown
Gatekeeper
1 Red Admiral
1 Painted Lady
There was a fair old breeze today which.........
...........would explain why there were fewer Gatekeepers on the wing than yesterday.
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
A Marmalade Hoverfly with some odd looking white dots over its thorax!!
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Flies sp.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus)
Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus)
A female Swollen-thighed Beetle
Ted:
Ted the dot in the distance
That's better
Scenic Shots
The Lighthouse at the Bill.
And the Higher Lighthouse
Ships Today:
