Highlights from an hour spent in the back garden this evening were a couple of moths and a few hoverflies.
A Wren joined the party, hunting down insects in the Sycamore Tree and there was a bit of a feud between 3 Blackbirds in the neighbouring gardens.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
3 Blackbird
1 Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
A Wren in the Sycamore chasing down insects.
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Moths Recorded:
Yellow-faced Bell (Notocelia cynosbatella)
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
A Yellow-faced Bell (Notocelia cynosbatella)
A Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
Bees Recorded:
Early Bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
Hoverflies Recorded:
1 Spring Epistrophe (Epistrophe eligans)
2 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
1 Spotted Thintail (Meliscaeva auricollis)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Spiders Recorded:
spider sp.
A Spring Epistrophe (Epistrophe eligans) on the flowering Hawthorn
These two are...........
..............Marmalade Hoverflies (Episyrphus balteatus)
A Spotted Thintail (Meliscaeva auricollis)
Many unidentified flies
Spiders Recorded:
spider sp.
spider sp.
As above.