17 Apr 24

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows, The Windmills, Watery Lane, Barleycrates Lane, West Cliff, Reap Lane Barn, Avalanche Road Hump, Thumb Lane and Weston Street.

Well that was hard work for just a handful of Spring Migrants.

They were:
Swallow: Six along the West Cliffs
Common Whitethroat: One singing from the bushes next to Weston Street. My first this Spring.
Blackcap: Three males singing between Avalanche Road Hump to Thumb Lane
Chiffchaff: One along Old Quarry Lane, One at Reap Lane Barns and four between Avalanche Road Hump and Thumb Lane


Mammals Recorded:
1 Brown Rat


Birds Recorded:
Buzzard
Kestrel
Herring Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
3 Skylark
6 Swallow
2 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
2 Stonechat
Blackbird
1 Common Whitethroat
3 Blackcap
6 Chiffchaff
2 Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch

A female Stonechat along Watery Lane

I could hear, but couldn't see it that well, until........

..........it flew onto another branch. A male Blackcap in Thumb Lane

A Chiffchaff singing from one branch and........

..........then another, and............

..........another.

One of the many House Sparrows by Reap Lane Barns. This male was totally unfazed by my presence, which was literally a couple of metres away.


Butterflies Recorded:
1 Speckled Wood


Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria)
Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida)

Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsata)

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida)

Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsata)

Hoverflies Recorded:
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)

A female Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Blue Blowfly (Calliphora vicina)
Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)


Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
2 Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa)
Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina)

A pair of Bloody-nosed Beetles making sure there are more next year.

And a Common Green Shieldbug

Ted:

I'm not playing your game Dad.

Ships Today:

This is the Lithuanian Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship "Athena Seaways" on its way from Dunkirk to Roe (Ireland). More on this vessel here.

This is the Madeiran Container Ship "MSC India" on its way from Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to London. More on this vessel here.

And the mystery vessel today was this warship at The Bill.