Well it might have been the longest day today, but for me I managed to miss most of it as the big "C" meant I slept for a good 16 hours through the night up until 1:00pm this afternoon. I have never felt so tired and drained as I was yesterday.
Dawn and I still had a few things to sort out at the caravan today, and having completed our tasks we had a walk around the "block" for some fresh air.
Main highlights were four juvenile Common Whitethroats chasing their parents for food, 2 Chiffchaffs singing and several Swallows "buzzing" around the farm
Birds Recorded:
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Skylark
7 Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Cetti's Warbler
6 Common Whitethroat
2 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Small Skipper
Large White
Speckled Wood
Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Marbled White
1 Painted Lady
This is a female Small Skipper
A Ringlet
Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata): Spotted by Dawn. No photo as it flew off.
Magpie (Abraxas grossulariata)
moth sp.
Magpie (Abraxas grossulariata)
moth sp.
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
A Red-tailed Bumblebee and a miridae sp. on a Knapweed flower (Photo taken by Dawn)
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded:
Ichneumon sp
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
grasshopper sps.
General Shots:
The track leading down to Furzedown Farm and Haven caravan park.