It was a late afternoon walk around my local patch, with the main highlight being a Chiffchaff calling from the wildlife site. Other highlights were a Painted Lady (sadly no photo), and six species of moths.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
1 Chiffchaff
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
8+ Large White Pieris brassicae
8+ Small White Pieris rapae
5 Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
3 Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
1 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
10+ Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
5 Chalk Hill Blue Polyommatus coridon
A Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
A male Chalk Hill Blue Polyommatus coridon
1 Triple-stripe Piercer Grapholita compositella
2 Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella
20+ Six-Spot Burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae
5 Yellow-spot Tortrix Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
1 Dingy Footman Eilema griseola2 Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
A Triple-stripe Piercer Grapholita compositella.
A Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella
And another Rush Veneer
Six-Spot Burnet moths Zygaena filipendulae on Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Yellow-spot Tortrix Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
A Dingy Footman Eilema griseola
A Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Garden Bumblebee Bombus hortorum
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius
Garden Bumblebee Bombus hortorum
A Garden Bumblebee Bombus hortorum
5 Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
1 Black Slip Wasp Pimpla rufipes
A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris with what I think is a fly it has just caught.
A Black Slip Wasp Pimpla rufipes
Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri
Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea
Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea
Many unidentified flies
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
Lesser Golden Knapweed Fly Chaetorellia jaceae
Red-spotted Parasite Fly Eriothrix rufomaculata
A Lesser Golden Knapweed Fly Chaetorellia jaceae
A Red-spotted Parasite Fly Eriothrix rufomaculata
7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
Common Green Shieldbug Palomena prasina
A 7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
A 3rd instar nymph Common Green Shieldbug Palomena prasina on a Blackberry
Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
Large Conehead Ruspolia nitidula
A Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
According to Obsidentify and this is a Large Conehead Ruspolia nitidula. If so, it is a first for me on Portland.
A male Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Crab spider sp.
spider sp.
Froghoppers Recorded:
Common Froghopper Philaenus spumarius
Plants:
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Greater Burdock Arctium lappa
Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum AKA 'Raspberries and Cream'
Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica
Lesser Burdock Arctium minus
Wild Clematis Clematis vitalba
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare
A Crab Spider sp.
On this Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare a spider has caught a fly, but seems reluctant to deal with it!!
Froghoppers Recorded:
Common Froghopper Philaenus spumarius
A Common Froghopper Philaenus spumarius
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Greater Burdock Arctium lappa
Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum AKA 'Raspberries and Cream'
Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica
Lesser Burdock Arctium minus
Wild Clematis Clematis vitalba
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare
Ted:
Well he did start off running!!
And where have you been Ted?