It appears that Summer has returned after a miserable August, that saw many wet and windy days.
Main highlight this afternoon was a Bullfinch calling from a dense patch of bushes and trees. Try as I could I wasn't able to pinpoint it.
An example of a Bullfinch calling courtesy of xeno-canto
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
20+ House Martin
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Bullfinch (possibly heard calling)
A Blue Tit......................
.............eating a Blackberry
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White
Small White
Green-veined White
1 Clouded Yellow
5 Speckled Wood
1 Holly Blue
2 Common Blue
2 Chalk Hill Blue
Most of the butterflies seen today like these two..........
...............Speckled Woods are looking very worn.
And isn't just the Speckled Woods but also this male and........
.............female Chalk Hill Blue
Moths Recorded:
2 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
1 Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
#1 - moth sp.
#2 - moth sp.
A Silver Y (Autographa gamma) and........
............another
This moth in flight is......
.............a Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
#1 - moth sp.
#2 - moth sp. which landed on my shirt.
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)
A Common Carder Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
And a Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum) on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Just the one photo of a Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) leaving the nest. I didn't want to stay there too long.
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)
#1 - hoverfly sp.
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Plain-faced Dronefly (Eristalis arbustorum)
A Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
And a hoverfly sp.
Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
A Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus).
I think this also another Common Field Grasshopper. They do vary in colour
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
A Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) wrapping up its latest catch
Ted:
Ted having a good run.
Now a bit of shade to cool down