The weather we're experiencing this Summer is all over the place. Yesterday you could be forgiven if you though it was November and today well it was wall to wall blue skies.
Having had an eye screening test this morning, I had to wait until late afternoon for a walk, so that the effects of the eye drops had worn off to dilate my pupils. Everything was so bright for a quite a few hours.
There were a few highlights including 10 Swallows heading south and a Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler calling but not seen.
Birds Recorded:
1 Buzzard (heard)
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
10 Swallow
Dunnock
1 Robin
1 Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler (heard)
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
4 Large White
2 Small White
1 Green-veined White
2 Speckled Wood
2 Meadow Brown
3 Gatekeeper
2 Red Admiral
5 Common Blue
A male Green-veined White
Speckled Wood
Red Admiral
Common Blue
2 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
A pair of Six-Spot Burnet moths
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Budleia
A male Red-tailed Bumblebee on Ragwort
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
A Marmalade Hoverfly
Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
A Roesel's Bush-cricket
And a Meadow Grasshopper
Crab Spider sp.
Small Black Ant (Lasius niger)
This Queen Small Black Ant had a.................
...........lucky escape from this Crab Spider.
Ted:
I'm coming Ted!!!