It was back in the garden today and I am glad I did as I came across my first Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella for this year. This leaf mining moth is a relatively new moth to our shores, with the first one ever recorded in Walditch, Dorset. in October 2001
Another highlight was watching a Palmate Newt "wriggling" about in the "Tractor Tyre" pond
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Blackbird
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Amphibians Recorded:
Palmate Newt Lissotriton helveticus
A Palmate Newt Lissotriton helveticus in the "Tractor Tyre" pond
Butterflies Recorded:
3 Small White Pieris rapae
1 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
A Small White Pieris rapae
A Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta settles under the leaves of the Bay tree Laurus nobilis
1 Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella
And my first......................
..................Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella of the year and..............
................I even managed a video of it displaying. Though I'm not sure where the female was!!
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Collette sp.
A Honey Bee Apis mellifera coming into land on this Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
A Collette sp. on an Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatusSyrphus sp.
A Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
A Syrphus sp.
Many unidentified flies
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
Common Nettle Flower Bug Plagiognathus arbustorum
Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis
A Common Nettle Flower Bug Plagiognathus arbustorum
A female Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis