Well that had to be the quickest walk Ted and I have had this year. We'd only walked a few hundred metres and then the heavens opened up as we approached the railway cuttings.
Fortunately the Sycamores are still in full leaf at the cuttings, so we managed to keep fairly dry. As it began to ease we made a hasty retreat home.
It was a real shame as in just that short walk, I had managed to see a Blackcap, a lot of Yellow-spot Tortrix moths, one Common Carder Bee, a couple of hoverflies and one of the odd looking Conopidae flies.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Blackcap
Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Butterflies Recorded:
None - very wet
Moths Recorded:
10+ Yellow-spot Tortrix (Pseudargyrotoza conwagana)
One of the 10+ Yellow-spot Tortrix moths seen along our walk.
One of the 10+ Yellow-spot Tortrix moths seen along our walk.
1 Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
8 Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)
Despite the rain the Common Wasp nest in the meadow was busy as ever.
1 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Vagrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae)
A Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
And a Vagrant Hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae)
1 Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus)
And this is a................
.........Four-banded Beegrabber (Conops quadrifasciatus) on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris).
5 Black Slug (Arion ater)
2 Large Red Slug (Arion ater)
General Shots:
Looking west along the railway track, as........
.............the rain began to fall quite heavily.
With the rain falling, Ted was that keen to get home, he pulled the lead out of my hand.