It was another trip to Barleycrates and Reap Lane Barn to see what was coming up the island. My previous visit here produced 100+ Meadow Pipits, todays figures were certainly double that, with large and small parties heading northwards. Accompanying them were small flocks of Goldfinches, totalling around 30+.
Other migrants noted were several Pied Wagtails and two Chiffchaffs. Missing from my list today were Stonechats and Wheatears, plus hirundines.
Despite that very cold easterly a Peacock butterfly was flying about in the relatively calmer conditions along the West Cliffs.
Mammals Recorded:
3 Brown Rat
Birds Recorded:
3 Gannet
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Kestrel
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
2 Skylark
200+ Meadow Pipit
7+ Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
2 Chiffchaff
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
2 Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
30+ Goldfinch
A Fulmar just below me on the West Cliffs.
And below the Fulmar was this Peregrine Falcon doing circuits over the sea and then back over the weares.
Around the barns in Reap Lane was......
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Peacock
Bees Recorded:
3 bumblebees sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
1 Peacock
Bees Recorded:
3 bumblebees sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
1 Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
A Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax) on Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
Ted:
I dread to think what Ted has found at the far end of Barleycrates lane
And your not going there!!