Always a good pit stop when you're in the area, not just for the Noodle Bar, but for landscape, woodland and large pool.
So this was our stopover here, on our way from Portland to Hatfield Heath, where Dawn and I were heading for my sisters wedding tomorrow.
Birds Recorded:
16 Mallard
2 Red Kite
2 Moorhen
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
8 House Martin
5 Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
2 Chiffchaff
Magpie
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
One of the two Red Kites over the Service Station
Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon
Fish Recorded:
Koi Carp
Butterflies Recorded:
Large White Pieris brassicae
Small White Pieris rapae
1 Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
A Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
Bees Recorded:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
Common Furrow-bee Lasioglossum calceatum
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
A Common Furrow-bee Lasioglossum calceatum
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
German Wasp Vespula germanica
3 European Hornet Vespa crabro
Two European Hornets Vespa crabro - in slow-motion
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
7-spot Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata
Plants:
Blackthorn Prunus spinosa
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
English Oak Quercus robur
Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna
Bulrushes Scirpoides holoschoenus
Great Sallow Salix caprea
