It was another walk down Old Quarry Lane today and then onto Wakeham Meadow. No real highlights as it was much the same as yesterday, though a Peregrine pursuing a feral pigeon was pretty spectacular. Not sure if it caught it, as they both disappeared behind the trees.
Birds Recorded:
1 Peregrine Falcon
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
1 Blackcap
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
Orange-tip
Large White
Small White
Wall Brown
Speckled Wood
Painted Lady
Holly Blue
Common Blue
A Wall Brown
Speckled Wood
Painted Lady
Common Blue
Cinerous Pearl (Anania fuscalis)
Triple-stripe Piercer (Grapholita compositella)
Plum Tortrix (Hedya pruniana)
Cinerous Pearl (Anania fuscalis)
Triple-stripe Piercer (Grapholita compositella)
Plum Tortrix (Hedya pruniana)
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Honey Bee
Chocolate Mining Bee
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Spring Epistrophe (Epistrophe eligans)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Large Narcissus Fly (Merodon equestris)
Common Dronefly
Rustic Sailor Beetle (Cantharis rustica)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea)
Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea)
A Rustic Sailor Beetle which appears to have lost the tip of its antennae.
And another Rustic Sailor Beetle just about hanging on to this grass spike.
My first Swollen-thighed Beetle this year.
A Dun-bar moth caterpillar on a Sycamore leaf, or rather under it.
Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum)
Wood Avens which also goes by the name of Herb Bennet.
Here is the flower. More on this plant Here.
Ted hiding in the long grass.