Port and Wey: 14 Sep 24

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows and Wakeham Wildlife Site

It was a shorter walk today, with the main highlights being 2 Chiffchaffs along Old Quarry Lane and several Ivy Bees on the edge of the meadow.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
2 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch

Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon

Butterflies Recorded:
5 Large White
5 Small White
4 Speckled Wood

1 Red Admiral
1 Small Copper
6 Common Blue

A Speckled Wood

This is a Small Copper

A Common Blue and...........

..........another one looking a bit worse for wear.

Moths Recorded:
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)

Bees Recorded:

1 Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
5 Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)

3 Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)
7+ Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae)

A Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on the last remaining Common Knapweeds (Centaurea nigra) in the meadow.

Common Furrow-bees (Lasioglossum calceatum) on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).

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

.................Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae)

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

Two Common Wasps (Vespula vulgaris) leave their nest in the meadow.

This a Robin's Pincushion on a Dog Rose (Rosa canina). It is a gall caused by the larvae of a tiny Gall Wasp (Dipoloepis rosaea). More on this Here.

Hoverflies Recorded:
Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta)
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)

Vagrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae)