After yesterdays cloudy and often showery day, it was back to wall to wall blue skies today, with temperatures reaching 26°C.
And for the first time in quite awhile we had a butterfly in the garden, a Small Whites I think!!
There are still 3 Azure Damselflies flitting about the garden, with 2 males on the lavender and a male on the "Bath" pond.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Amphibians Recorded:
Palmate Newt
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
3 Azure Damselfly
A male Azure Damselfly by the "Bath" pond and.........
........another male on the Lavender
Butterflies Recorded:
Small White (90% sure) or Green-veined White
A bit of a school boy error here. I managed two........
Bees Recorded:
4 Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Hoverflies Recorded:
10+ Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
3 Narcissus Bulb Fly (Merodon equestris)
1 hoverfly sp.
Another one of my attempts to photograph a Marmalade hoverfly hovering.
hoverfly sp.
20+ Semaphore Fly (Poecilobothrus nobilitatus)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
8 Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
3 Rosemary Beetle (Chrysolina americana)
The Swollen-thighed Beetles do like sitting in the Californian Poppies
Or in this case on a Sycamore leaf'
One of the three Rosemary Beetles on the Lavender, with the Rosemary a metre or so away.