It was a fairly quick walk today, to see if there was anything about. Sadly no migrants, but then it was quite late in the day. There are still quite a few butterflies about with 6 species recorded, including 3 Holly Blues
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Greenfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
4 Large White
3 Speckled Wood
1 Small Heath
2 Meadow Brown
3 Holly Blue
2 Common Blue
A Speckled Wood and deceased Small Black Ant
A Small Heath
Meadow Brown
One of the three Holly Blues seen along my walk.
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
A Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
And a Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Lacewings and Scorpionflies Recorded:
lacewing sp.
A lacewing sp.
Old Man’s Beard (Clematis vitalba)
Scarlet Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea)
Old Man's Beard and Scarlet Firethorn
Ted:
A few Ted's today
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Wakeham
I set the Trail camera up last night and had a Fox drinking from the "Bath" Pond around 10pm, and this morning it was bathtime for the House Sparrows, Goldfinches and the Fife Canary.
Mixed bathing this morning in the "Bath" pond, with juvenile House Sparrows, a Goldfinch briefly and the Fife Canary
Nothing unusual I know, but it was interesting to note that one of the juvenile House Sparrows (perhaps an advanced juvenile) was visually more contrasty than its siblings.