Port and Wey: 9 Jul 24

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows and Wakeham Wildlife Site

What a wet miserable day, which didn't improve until early evening. However mid-afternoon, there was a short break in the weather, before the drizzle returned.

Main highlight was 6 House Martin feeding on insects just above the Sycamore trees. Also about, despite the wet conditions, were a few butterflies and moths.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
6 House Martin
Dunnock
Blackbird
1 Song Thrush
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch

A Goldfinch brightens up a miserable day.

Butterflies Recorded:
5 Meadow Brown
2 Gatekeeper
3 Marbled White

A Meadow Brown and.....

............a Gatekeeper.

These are...........

.................Marbled Whites.

Moths Recorded:
Crescent Plume (Marasmarcha lunaedactyla)

Hoary Tortrix (Eucosma cana)

A Crescent Plume (Marasmarcha lunaedactyla)

Hoary Tortrix (Eucosma cana)

Bees Recorded:

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)

A Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)

And a very wet Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)

Hoverflies Recorded:
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)

Black-horned Smoothtail (Epistrophe grossulariae)

hoverfly sp.

Possibly a Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)

A Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

And a Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)

Black-horned Smoothtail (Epistrophe grossulariae)

hoverfly sp.

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)
Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)

Painted Graphfly (Graphomya maculata)

Common Fruit Fly (Tephritis bardanae)

#1 - fly sp.

#2 - leaf-miner fly sp.

A Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)

Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)

Painted Graphfly (Graphomya maculata)

Common Fruit Fly (Tephritis bardanae).

#1 - fly sp.

#2 - leaf-miner fly sp.

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:

Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)

Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus)

A Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)

A male Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

A Common Green Capsid (Lygocoris pabulinus)

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Meadow Grasshoppers (Chorthippus parallelus) are normally brown or green like this one. However females can vary in colour and can even be plum or purple in colour, like this individual below.