17 Oct 24

Wakeham

That's what we like, blue skies and lots of sunshine, unlike  yesterdays torrential rain and thick fog.

Highlights from the back garden today were 3 Meadow Pipits over and a Chiffchaff calling from a few gardens down.


Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
3 Meadow Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
1 Chiffchaff
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch

Onto the chair.......

............then the table.

I think the resident Robin was quite pleased to see me today. Well perhaps not me, but certainly the mealworms.

Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon


Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)

This Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) leaves this Nasturtium flower (Tropaeolum majus)....

..........for another one.

And a Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) also on a Nasturtium flower (Tropaeolum majus)

A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) in a Common Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)

This Summer and Autumn I have seen many male Common Furrow-bees (Lasioglossum calceatum). This is the first female of this species I have seen this year.

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
A few unidentified flies


Caterpillars Recorded:
Large White

A new Nasturtium leaf (Tropaeolum majus) for these Large Whites.

Ted:

I wonder where Ted is!!