It was another day spent in the garden and well, we really do need some rain soon. Quite a few plants have died and many more are on the way out. It' really is a real shame.
Main highlights were a fly-by Chalk Hill Blue, and both a Common Dronefly and Dead Head Hoverfly seen.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Great Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Linnet
Goldfinch
A male Great Tit coming into land on the feeder.
An adult Goldfinch flanked by two juveniles on my neighbour's Fig Tree.
Butterflies Recorded:
2 Large White
1 Chalk Hill Blue
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Bronze Furrow Bees (Halictus tumulorum)
A Honey Bee flying off to another Lavender flower.
On the "Tractor Tyre" Pond was this Buff-tailed Bumblebee having........
.............a drink.
A Red-tailed Bumblebee
A Common Carder Bee on Lavender and.........
.........off it flies to another flower.
Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
A Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Ichneumon and Parasitic Wasps Recorded:
Ichneumon sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
A Dead Head Hoverfly and below an Ichneumon sp.
Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
Common Field Grasshopper