It was just a quick look around the garden today, as I had a long visit this afternoon to the Dentist for root canal treatment. A very unpleasant procedure and unfortunately to be followed by round two tomorrow afternoon.
A sad note to start off with in the back garden, and that was a dead adult Goldfinch by the Cherry Tree. There was a bit of damage to it, and I suspect it was a cat that was the perpetrator.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
A sad sight. A deceased adult Goldfinch.
And another Goldfinch close-by.
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
Small White Pieris rapae
Moths Recorded:
1 Silver Y Autographa gamma
Bees Recorded:
3 Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum on Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
Hoverflies Recorded:
Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri
Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
Thick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens
White-footed Hoverfly Platycheirus albimanusThick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens
A Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
A Thick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
A Greenbottle Lucilia sp. Apparently all Greenbottles bronze with age. This individual must be very old!!
Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis