Leading Roding
Today was a special day for my sister as after 25 years of being together with her fiancé, she finally got married, an honour I was more than happy to perform.
The photos below are of her beautiful garden in Leaden Roding here.
Wood Pigeon
2 Turtle Dove - Present for the past 3 months until today 😞
15+ Sand Martin/Swallow
Dunnock
2 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
200+ Rook
Jackdaw
That's a lot of Rooks overhead.
And with the Rooks that looks very much like a Jackdaw bottom right. Glad to be corrected.
Butterflies Recorded:
2 Small White Pieris rapae
Bees Recorded:
4 Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
1 Bronze Furrow Bee Halictus tumulorum
Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
8 German Wasp Vespula germanica
Hoverflies Recorded:
2 Small White Pieris rapae
A Small White Pieris rapae
4 Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
1 Bronze Furrow Bee Halictus tumulorum
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum and............
.........another one.
And this...............
.............is a Bronze Furrow Bee Halictus tumulorum
8 German Wasp Vespula germanica
A German Wasp Vespula germanica feeding on an apple. And...........
.............another one feeding inside an apple.
And I found this German Wasp floating in the garden pond. I managed to........
............lift it out and place it on this stone to dry out. A few minutes later it flew off, non the worse for its dip.
Dronefly Eristalis sp.
This either a Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax or a Tapered Dronefly E. pertinax
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Flesh Fly Sarcophaga sp.
Many unidentified flies
Flesh Fly Sarcophaga sp.
A Flesh Fly Sarcophaga sp.
General shots:
A few of photos of the garden
