Well that was pretty confusing. Literally a few minutes before I left the cottage for a walk, it had been wall to wall blue skies for a good couple of hours. However as I closed the front door behind me, all I could see was thick fog swirling around the houses.
The forecast was for rain at 5:00pm, but instead it arrived at 4:15pm, hence the quick walk across the road and back. But as I write the sun is now streaming through the front window at 5:15pm. Don't you just love the British weather!!
Despite the short walk it was actually pretty good, with 4 species of warbler noted, a pair of Swifts heading north and my first Common Carder Bee of the year.
Birds Recorded:
1 Kestrel
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
2 Swift
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Song Thrush
1 Garden Warbler
1 Common Whitethroat
1 Blackcap
2 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Apart from a Common Whitethroat singing in Wakeham Meadow, this Chiffchaff and.......
Centre of frame is a Chiffchaff sat in an Apple Tree. The calls before it began to sing (briefly) were from a pair of Magpies close-by. The other calls are from a Blue Tit.
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
A Honey Bee on a Wall Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis)
Also on the Wall Cotoneaster were these two Buff-tailed Bumblebees.
My first Common Carder of the year on Horseshoe Vetch.
Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Blue Blowfly (Calliphora vicina)
Woodlice Crustaceans Recorded:
Woodlouse sp.
A Woodlouse sp.
Plants:
Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). Also known as Sloe
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
General Shots:
Ted:
Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). Also known as Sloe
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)
Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa)Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum)
Wall Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis)
Wayfaring-tree (Viburnum lantana)
Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum)
Wall Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis)
Wayfaring-tree (Viburnum lantana)
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
General Shots:
Christine's Wildlife Garden close to Old Quarry Lane.
Ted:
Ted having a good run