10 Jul 25

Wakeham

Here are a few photos and a video from in and around the garden today.

One of the two Swifts which passed over the garden

Looking through the Cherry Tree I could see a juvenile Great Tit on the bird feeder.

A juvenile House Sparrow sat in the Buddleia............

................. waiting for mum to come and feed him.

A Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta basking on an Oak leaf.

And then feeding on the nectar from this Buddleia.

Before flying off to another flower.

A Honey Bee Apis mellifera in amongst the lavender.

A Vagrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae.

A Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax with a Greenbottle Lucilia sp. looking down at it.

A Syrphus hoverfly sp.

A Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva

Dawn adding the...........

..............finishing touches to the "Bug House" she just made.

This is the privately owned Piper Tomahawk Reg. G-BPPF on its way from Jersey to Kemble. More on this aircraft here and a serious incident with this aircraft here in 2020.