A busy day, so unfortunately no time for a walk, but plenty to see in and around the back garden, including a Tree Pipit heading north!!
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Tree Pipit
Dunnock
Robin
1 Chiffchaff/ Willow Warbler (heard from neighbours garden)
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
Linnet
Goldfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Red Admiral
Moths Recorded:
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
Bees Recorded:
2 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
6 Common Carder Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum)
6 Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
1 bee sp
Hoverflies Recorded:
Stripe-backed Fleckwing (Dasysyrphus albostriatus)
On this California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is a Stripe-backed Fleckwing. It is aka a Stripe-backed Brusheye.
One of the two Buff-tailed Bumblebees on a Passion Flower (Passiflora sp.)
A Common Carder on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
And another on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
A bee sp. also on Common Ragwort
Stripe-backed Fleckwing (Dasysyrphus albostriatus)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
#1 - fly sp.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum)
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)
Plants:
Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
I'm really pleased with this Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus). I bought 4 plants and they have taken well in the back garden. It is also known as Mexican Aster. More on this plant here.
Ted:
#1 - fly sp.
#2 - fly sp.
#3 - fly sp.
#1 - fly sp.
#2 - fly sp.
#3 - fly sp.
Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum)
This Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum) was on.........
............the Lavender (Lavandula sp.)
Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)
I wasn't expecting to come across a Roesel's Bush-cricket. It was sat on ladder rack soaking up the sun.
Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
Ted:
Ted looking a bit sheepish!!