It was another chilled day in the back garden.
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
One of the two juvenile Herring Gulls raised in between the neighbours chimney pots. This one is having a good look through our bathroom window.
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White Pieris brassicae
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
Moths Recorded:
1 Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella
Bees Recorded:
Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White Pieris brassicae
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
Moths Recorded:
1 Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella
A Cherry Fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella sat on the branch of the Cherry Tree
Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Patchwork Leafcutter Bee Megachile centuncularis
Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sp
Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum on a Perennial Sweet Pea Lathyrus latifolius
A Patchwork Leafcutter Bee Megachile centuncularis
On this Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris is a Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sp.
Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
Tree Wasp Dolichovespula sylvestris
Common Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasp Diplazon laetatorius
Wasp Scelionidae sp.
Wasp Scelionidae sp.
A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
And this tiny wasp is...............
...........a Common Hover Fly Parasitoid Wasp Diplazon laetatorius
And this very tiny insect is apparently one of the wasp family of Scelionidaes
8 Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
Glass-winged Syrphus Syrphus vitripennis
Migrant Hoverfly Meliscaeva auricollis
A Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
On this Common Ragwort is a Glass-winged Syrphus Syrphus vitripennis. AKA Lesser Banded Hoverfly and Black-thighed Flower Fly
And this is a Migrant Hoverfly Meliscaeva auricollis AKA Spotted Thintail
Many unidentified flies
Flesh Fly Sarcophaga sp.
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
Love them or hate them.........
...........some of our flies like this Greenbottle Lucilia sp. are really stunning looking
Large White Pieris brassicae
This Large White Pieris brassicae caterpillar will be looking for another Nasturtium Tropaeolum majus leaf very soon.