With Ted at the groom room, it gave me a good 70 minutes to walk around Radipole lake before picking him up mid-afternoon. So as not too make it a race against time to cover the whole reserve, I opted to walk to the North Hide and back.
And what a great decision that was, with brief song from a Nightingale in the scrubland here, 3 Hobby's - two to the north of the reserve and one close to where the Nightingale was singing. Plus 3 Swifts overhead and 4 Reed Warblers along my walk.
Plus I added a new damselfly to my Port & Wey list. See below.
Birds Recorded:
2 Little Egret
1 Grey Heron
2 Mute Swan
Mallard
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Marsh Harrier
3 Hobby
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
3 Swift
20+ Sand Martin
1 Nightingale
Robin
Blackbird
3 Reed Warbler
2 Cetti's Warbler
2 Chiffchaff
Wren
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
2 Reed Bunting
And what a great decision that was, with brief song from a Nightingale in the scrubland here, 3 Hobby's - two to the north of the reserve and one close to where the Nightingale was singing. Plus 3 Swifts overhead and 4 Reed Warblers along my walk.
Plus I added a new damselfly to my Port & Wey list. See below.
Birds Recorded:
2 Little Egret
1 Grey Heron
2 Mute Swan
Mallard
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Marsh Harrier
3 Hobby
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
3 Swift
20+ Sand Martin
1 Nightingale
Robin
Blackbird
3 Reed Warbler
2 Cetti's Warbler
2 Chiffchaff
Wren
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
2 Reed Bunting
A Grey Heron
My first Hobby of the year
And my first Swift for the year as well.
This male Reed Bunting was in good voice until...........
........I started to video it singing.
Broad-bodied Chaser
Azure Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Variable Damselfly
Beautiful Demoiselle
A male Azure Damselfly
A Blue-tailed Damselfly
And another Blue-tailed Damselfly.
This is a female Variable Damselfly. Thank you to Ed Wilson for the ID. And it is a new damselfly for my Port & Wey list.
A Beautiful Demoiselle
2 Large White
4 Small White
3 Green-veined White
1 Brimstone
1 Speckled Wood
3 Red Admiral
4 Holly Blue
A Brimstone on..............
.......................a Comfrey sp.
A very worn Speckled Wood
And a Holly Blue
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
1 German Wasp (Vespula germanica)
A German Wasp (Vespula germanica)
4 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
2 Mini-tiger Hoverfly (Parhelophilus frutetorum)
A Tiger Marsh Fly (Helophilus pendulus)
1 Cheilosia sp.
1 Cheilosia sp.
A Mini-tiger Hoverfly (Parhelophilus frutetorum)
A Tiger Marsh Fly (Helophilus pendulus). AKA The Footballer
A Cheilosia sp. I think!
Many unidentified flies
1 Alder Fly (Sialis lutaria)
An Alder Fly (Sialis lutaria)
Whirligig beetle (Gyrinus substriatus)
A Whirligig beetle (Gyrinus substriatus) in the River Wey
General shots:
The track to the North Hide running alongside the River Wey.
