It was another hot day and a bit too warm for a walk, so as per yesterday, it was an afternoon spent in the back garden. Below are few things I found:
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
20+ House Martin/Swallow
1 Yellow Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
A Jackdaw heading towards the Lower Horse Paddocks to the north
And here is a juvenile female House Sparrow.
Butterflies Recorded:
3 Large White
1 Green-veined White
1 Speckled Wood
3 Red Admiral
1 Holly Blue
3 Large White
1 Green-veined White
1 Speckled Wood
3 Red Admiral
1 Holly Blue
Here are........
...........the three...........
............Red Admirals in the garden this afternoon.
Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Honey Bees on an Ice Plant (Hylotelephium spectabile).
A worker Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) on Common Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Hoverflies Recorded:
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Syrphus sp.
A Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
A camera shy Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria)
And this Syrphus sp. was on the California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) again
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Rosemary Beetle (Chrysolina americana)
Its been awhile........
.........since I have seen a Rosemary Beetle. Here it........
...........trying to get off this plant. I helped it in the end.
Plants:
Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)
A Hart's-tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) in a shaded part of the garden
Ted in the shade.
This a Norman NAC-2 Freelance registration G-NACA which flew fairly low over Portland