4 Jul 22

Wakeham

With the four juvenile Great Tits now fledged from the Pizza Oven, I could finally get to the garden shed and give it a good clear out. They may have left a couple of days ago, but they can still be heard begging for food from the neighbours garden.


Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
2 Swallow
Dunnock
Blackbird
Great Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Linnet
Goldfinch


Reptiles Recorded:
3 Slow-worm

Two of three Slow-worms under the corrugated sheet.

Hmm the remains of another Slow-worm. A cat or a Fox maybe.

Amphibians Recorded:
Palmate Newt

At least 3 newts coming up to the surface for a gulp of air in the "Tyre" Pond


Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
Blue-tailed Damselfly

I think this is a female Blue-tailed Damselfly

And these are two........

............males.

How weird is that face.

Butterflies Recorded:
Not a single butterfly seen!!


Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
bee sp.

There were six bee species in the back garden this afternoon, including this White-tailed Bumblebee.

bee sp.

Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)


Ichneumon Wasps Recorded:
Ichneumon sp

Ichneumon sp

Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)

Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
fly sp.

fly sp.

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)

Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)

Plants:

Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)

This is Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) and I grew it from.....

.............seeds I gathered from Vaycroft Quarry two years ago. It is also called Evening Star and Sundrop.