With settled weather, I took the opportunity to potter around the garden.
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
2 Meadow Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail
1 Dunnock
1 Robin
2 Chiffchaff
1 Great Tit
1 Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
When I'm in the garden, this Robin is never to far away, especially if I unearth a worm.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Large White
2 Small White
3 Red Admiral
These are.............
...............Red Admirals.
Pellitory Beauty (Cosmopterix pulchrimella)
Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes)
A Pellitory Beauty (Cosmopterix pulchrimella).........................
................... on Pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria judaicais)
Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipe)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipe)
Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)
This is a.........
..............Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum) on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
1 Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Hoverflies Recorded:
4 Chequered Hoverfly (Melanostoma scalare)
8 Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
5 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
A Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
Many flies - Non identified
Spiders Recorded:
spider sp.
Ted:
It looks like.........
.............Ted has been helping me!!