Port and Wey: 25 May 24

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows and Wakeham Wildlife Site

I just managed to get a walk in before a very wet weather front moved in this afternoon.

Highlights this afternoon were a Reed Warbler singing from within the Buddleia bushes next to the Wildlife Site, a lone Swallow heading south and my first Common Blue butterflies this year.

Birds Recorded:
20+ Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
1 Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Song Thrush
1 Reed Warbler
1 Blackcap
1 Chiffchaff
6 Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
1 Greenfinch

One of the local Robins

And the Song Thrush is still singing away in the Sycamore tree next to the meadow.

Butterflies Recorded:
3 Speckled Wood
2 Common Blue

A Speckled Wood

Common Blue

Moths Recorded:

2 Endothenia sp.

An Endothenia sp.

And another.

Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

bee sp.

A bee sp.

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
1 Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:

fly sp.

fly sp.

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
4 Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)
1 Rustic Sailor Beetle (Cantharis rustica)
1 Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)