After a few finishing touches to the caravan for our next set of guests, Ted and I had a walk around "The Rangers" field to the south-east of Lynch Cove here.
The weather was pretty miserable, but at least it wasn't raining. There were few highlights with the best of the bunch being a Curlew, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10+ Swallows, a Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff and 2 Goldcrests.
Also noted were a single Speckled Wood and a very light and bright pristine looking Painted Lady. The latter just wouldn't settle, so no photos unfortunately.
Birds Recorded:
1 Cormorant
1 Buzzard
1 Curlew
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Great Spotted Woodpecker
10+ Swallow
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Blackcap
3 Chiffchaff
2 Goldcrest
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Two Mediterranean Gulls at the top and two Black-headed Gulls below.
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
Hawker sp.
Hawker sp.
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Speckled Wood
1 Painted Lady
A Speckled Wood
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
A Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
1 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly (Xanthogramma pedissequum)
A Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Cranefly sp.
Cranefly sp.
Slugs and Snails Recorded:
Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
A Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)
spider sp.
A spider sp.
This is................
.........a Common Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare). More on this plant here.
General Shots:
This is..........
..........the Rangers Field. And here.......
......is one of the tracks coming of it.
Ted:
Ted sporting his new harness.