It was a quick visit to the caravan this afternoon followed by a long walk past the farm and two coves.
Main highlights were my first Small Heaths and a lone Marbled White butterfly for the year. Plus my first for the year, Six-Spot Burnet moths and Yellow Shells
Birds Recorded:
1 Oystercatcher
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
bee sp.
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
#1 - Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
#2 - Dagger Fly sp
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Caterpillars Recorded:
Small Eggar (Eriogaster lanestris)
caterpillar sp.
Plants:
#1 - plant sp.
Ted:
Birds Recorded:
1 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
2 Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song Thrush
1 Garden Warbler
3 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Blackcap
5 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
A lone Oystercatcher feeding in Tidmoor Cove
One of the two Swallows at Furzedown Farm
A male Chiffchaff
Butterflies Recorded:
3 Large White
2 Speckled Wood
5 Small Heath
20+ Meadow Brown
1 Marbled White
2 Holly Blue
3 Large White
2 Speckled Wood
5 Small Heath
20+ Meadow Brown
1 Marbled White
2 Holly Blue
A Small Heath. My first this year.
A Meadow Brown and.........
.........another one showing the upper wings.
My first Marbled White for the year. And it was the only one I managed to find
A Holly Blue
Moths Recorded:
4 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)
10+ Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
4 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)
10+ Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
1 Swan-feather Dwarf (Elachista argentella)
A Yellow Shell
Six-Spot Burnet moth
And a Swan-feather Dwarf
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
bee sp.
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
bee sp.
Ichneumon Wasps Recorded:
Ichneumon sp.
Ichneumon sp.
This Ichneumon sp. made its escape from my camera
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Mimic Bee Hoverfly (Volucella bombylans)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Mimic Bee Hoverfly (Volucella bombylans)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
A Mimic Bee Hoverfly (Volucella bombylans)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
#1 - Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
#2 - Dagger Fly sp
#3 - fly sp.
#4 - fly sp.
Thick-headed Fly (Sicus ferrugineus)
Dagger Fly sp
#3 - fly sp.
#4 - fly sp.
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Small Eggar (Eriogaster lanestris)
caterpillar sp.
Small Eggar (Eriogaster lanestris)
And another "nest" full of Small Eggars
I still have no idea what caterpillar this is. I came across a few like this last year, but couldn't ID it then.
#1 - plant sp.
#2 - plant sp.
#1 - plant sp.
General Shots:
#1 - plant sp.
#1 - plant sp.
#2 - plant sp.
#2 - plant sp.
#3 - plant sp.
The paths are well overgrown
Looks like someone lost a..............
.............trainer. Stand in the wrong place and your feet get sucked in to the mud.
An inquisitive dog is our Ted.
Come on you can do it.