Same old I'm afraid, with another walk around the meadows. Only surprise today was not seeing or hearing a single warbler.
Only real highlight was coming across two species of Skipper butterflies.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Reptiles Recorded:
2 Slow-worm
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Small Skipper
1 Large Skipper
1 Large White
4 Speckled Wood
5 Ringlet
5 Meadow Brown
7 Marbled White
1 Painted Lady
Moths Recorded:
#1 - 20+ Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella)
#2 - moth sp.
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
15+ Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Early Bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
1 Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
5 Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
20+ Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Lacewings and Scorpionflies Recorded:
lacewing sp
Ted:
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Reptiles Recorded:
2 Slow-worm
An adult Slow-worm on the right and on the left a juvenile
1 Small Skipper
1 Large Skipper
1 Large White
4 Speckled Wood
5 Ringlet
5 Meadow Brown
7 Marbled White
1 Painted Lady
A male Small Skipper
A female Large Skipper
Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Marbled White
Moths Recorded:
#1 - 20+ Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella)
#2 - moth sp.
#3 - moth sp.
#1 - Garden Grass-veneer (Chrysoteuchia culmella)
#2 - moth sp.
#3 - moth sp.
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
15+ Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Early Bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
A male Early Bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
Hoverflies Recorded:
7+ Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
7+ Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
1 Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
5 Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
20+ Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
A male Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
A Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)
lacewing sp
lacewing sp
Ted patient as ever.