The weather might have been pretty dire again, but unlike yesterday when there was very little about, today was a complete transformation with many highlights.
Today's highlights:
Swallow: 10+ over the reserve
Meadow Pipit: 1 over the reserve
Yellow Wagtail: 1 over the reserve
Common Redstart: 1 male and 2 females on the reserve
Wheatear: 1 male and 2 females on the reserve
Reed Warbler: 2 on the reserve
Garden Warbler: 1 on the reserve
Common Whitethroat: 6 on the reserve, 2 Lower Horse Paddock and 1 Higher Horse Paddock
Lesser Whitethroat: 1 Wakeham Wildlife Site and 1 on the reserve
Blackcap: 4 Wakeham Meadow, 1 Wakeham Wildlife Site and 2 on the reserve.
Chiffchaff: 2 Wakeham Meadow and 2 on the reserve.
Willow Warbler: 4 on the reserve
Birds Recorded:
1 Fulmar
Kestrel
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
10+ Swallow
1 Meadow Pipit
1 Yellow Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
3 Common Redstart
3 Wheatear
Blackbird
1 Song Thrush
2 Reed Warbler
1 Garden Warbler
9 Common Whitethroat
2 Lesser Whitethroat
7 Blackcap
4 Chiffchaff
4 Willow Warbler
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
A Fulmar over Wakeham again
And a female Common Redstart.
And another female, Unfortunately the male flew off before I could photograph it
A male Wheatear and his......
.........mate
And another female.
A female Common Whitethroat in the Lower Horse Paddock
And a Chiffchaff in Wakeham Meadow.
And these two Willow Warblers were..........
..........in the butterfly reserve.
A male Linnet in amongst the Daisy's and Buttercups.
A Goldfinch
1 Orange-tip
Moths Recorded:
Green-longhorn Moth (Adela reaumurella)
A male Green-longhorn Moth (Adela reaumurella)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Hoverflies Recorded:
None
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
fly sp.
None
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
fly sp.
fly sp.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa)
Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)
A Bloody-nosed Beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa)
And a Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
And my first Dark Bush-cricket nymph of the year.
Nurseryweb Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)
A Nurseryweb Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)
Broadcroft Butterfly Reserve (west)
Looking south and.......
.......then north.