It is still warm, but not that searing heat from last week. So with plenty of water onboard, in case it did warm up, Ted and I headed off on our usual walk.
Highlights this afternoon were 3 Common Buzzards and a few Small Whites. The latter I haven't seen for awhile.
Birds Recorded:
3 Buzzard
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4 House Martin
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
One of the 3 Buzzards over Wakeham this afternoon.
hawker sp.
Butterflies Recorded:
3 Large White
5 Small White
2 Green-veined White
4 Speckled Wood
10+ Meadow Brown
5 Gatekeeper
5 Common Blue
6 Chalk Hill Blue
A pristine Speckled Wood
A Gatekeeper
And a Chalkhill Blue
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
10+ Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
4 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
4 Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
1 Ragwort Root-borer (Epiblema costipunctana)
1 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)
Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Ichneumon Wasp sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus)
Greenbottle (Lucilia sp.)
House Fly (Neomyia sp.)
Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)
Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
grasshoppers sp.
Plants:
Ted:
1 Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)
5 Tawny Sycamore Piercer (Pammene aurita)
A Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
Ragwort Root-borer (Epiblema costipunctana)
Yellow Shell (Camptogramma bilineata)
These are...............
...............Tawny Sycamore Piercers (Pammene aurita)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipe)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipe)
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Ichneumon Wasp sp.
The Common Wasp nest in Wakeham Meadow
And an Ichneumon Wasp sp.
Dead Head Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria)
The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus)
These are............
............Dead Head Hoverflies (Myathropa florea)
A Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria) with The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus) on the far right and....
........then on the left.
Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus)
Greenbottle (Lucilia sp.)
House Fly (Neomyia sp.)
Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)
Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides)
A Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus) takes off from this Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
This...........
..................Red Spotted Parasite Fly (Eriothrix rufomaculata)...........
........was displaying in the undergrowth.
Here are...........
.............a few photos of..........
.............a Yellow Bellied Fly (Sciara hemerobioides).
Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
#1 - plant bugs sp.
A Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)
A male Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
And a Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
#1 - plant bugs sp
grasshoppers sp.
Below are a selection of grasshoppers photographed this afternoon. I will try to identify them all in time.
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
Caterpillars Recorded:
Cinnabar moth - None!!
Leafhoppers Recorded:
Leafhopper (Empoasca vitis)
Cinnabar moth - None!!
Leafhoppers Recorded:
Leafhopper (Empoasca vitis)
A Leafhopper (Empoasca vitis)
Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
I think Ted's had enough of this walk.