Old Quarry Lane and Wakeham Meadow
Today was pretty overcast and quite muggy, with very little sun. There were a few highlights, including the largest Great Green Bush Cricket I think I've ever seen
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
House Martin
Swallow
Dunnock
Magpie
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White
Small White
1 Speckled Wood
Meadow Brown
Red Admiral
1 Comma
Common Blue
Speckled Wood
Meadow Brown
A male Common Blue
This has to be the most vivid blue Common Blue I have seen this year.
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
2 Jersey Tiger (Euplagia quadripunctaria)
A short video just to show fast those wings are vibrating
However they do keep still.
Not one but.........
............two Jersey Tiger moths seen today along Old Quarry Lane
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
A Honey Bee on Buddleia
And a male Red-tailed Bumblebee
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus)
Vagrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae)
Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
A male Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus)
Vagrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae)
A male Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)
Common Fruit Fly (Tephritis bardanae)
Sarcophaga sp.
Common Fruit Fly (Tephritis bardanae)
Common Fruit Fly (Tephritis bardanae)
The Common Fruit Fly on walkabout
Sarcophaga sp.
fly sp.
fly sp.
flies sp.
Parasitic Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)
Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Short-winged Cone-head (Conocephalus dorsalis)
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
A male Short-winged Cone-head (Conocephalus dorsalis)
Ted:
Ted hiding from me again