Port and Wey: 13 Jun 25

Wakeham

After yesterdays big effort in sorting out the sheds, it was a chill out day to rest those muscles. Both Dawn and I ache like crazy. Still there all down now and like I wrote yesterday, we're just waiting on a skip next week to get rid of it all.

Main highlight in the garden today was an Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella by the "Bath" Pond.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Dunnock

Blackbird

Magpie

Carrion Crow

Jackdaw

Starling

House Sparrow

Linnet

Goldfinch

A male House Sparrow, with quite a moult or is it.

I'm wondering whether it might be some sort of mite/parasite that has caused this loss of feathers.

Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon

Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:

Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella

An Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella

Butterflies Recorded:

None

Moths Recorded:

None

Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Common Furrow-bee Lasioglossum calceatum
Early Bumblebee Bombus pratorum
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Yellow-legged Mining Bee Andrena flavipe

Honey Bee Apis mellifera

Brown-footed Leafcutter Bee Megachile versicolor

Honey Bee Apis mellifera

A Brown-footed Leafcutter Bee Megachile versicolor coming into land on a Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria, where there is already a Trivial Plant Bug Closterotomus rivialis sat there.

Sawflies Recorded:
Sawfly sp.

A Sawfly sp.

Hoverflies Recorded:
#1 - Syrphus sp

#2 - Syrphus sp.

2 The Footballer Helophilus pendulus

#1 - Syrphus sp.

#2 - Syrphus sp.

The Footballer Helophilus pendulus

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.

Root-maggot fly Anthomyia procellaris

Greenbottle Lucilia sp.

A Root-maggot fly Anthomyia procellaris. A regular species of fly seen in the garden.

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:

Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis

Common Flower Bug Anthocoris nemorum - larvae

Trivial Plant Bug Closterotomus rivialis

2 Spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata

The larva of a Common Flower Bug Anthocoris nemorum

Trivial Plant Bug Closterotomus rivialis

A 2 Spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata

Spiders Recorded:
Flower Spider Misumena vatia

A Flower Spider Misumena vatia on one of the Crown Daisies Glebionis coronaria. And....

............here is its prey a............

.............hoverfly sp.

Plants:
Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria
Oxeye Daisies Leucanthemum vulgare
Pellitory-of-the-wall Parietaria judaicais
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
Red Valerian Centranthus ruber

Hybrid Water Lily nymphaea marliacea