Port and Wey: 13 Sep 25

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Wildlife Site and Wakeham Meadows

I haven't given up on visiting Chesil Cove, but with a busy day at home, it meant I wasn't able to visit today. Hopefully a trip tomorrow.

With that strong westerly still blowing hard, it was difficult to find anything of note. However coming across a pristine male Common Blue was an interesting find. It is most likely to be a second brood, but it could possibly be a third brood, especially here in the south.

What was noticeable was the absence of any "White" butterflies, but I did come across singles of Small Copper and Speckled Wood.

On the bird front a lone Chiffchaff was the only migrant noted.

Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
1 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch

Escapees, Ferals, Possibles Etc.
Feral pigeon

Butterflies Recorded:
1 Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
1 Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas
1 Common Blue Polyommatus icarus

A Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria making the most of the sun

A very smart looking Common Blue Polyommatus icarus

Moths Recorded:
3 Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella

A Rush Veneer Nomophila noctuella

Bees Recorded:
8+ Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
3 Ivy Bee Colletes hederae

On this Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris is a Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum

And another Common Carder Bee.

There are a lot fewer Ivy Bees Colletes hederae than I would have expected at this time of year. Mind you the strong winds don't help.

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:
Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris
German Wasp Vespula germanica

Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris

And a German Wasp Vespula germanica

Hoverflies Recorded:

5 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
2 Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea

1 Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii

A Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax

A Dead Head Hoverfly Myathropa florea

On this Common Ragwort is a Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Blue Blowfly Calliphora vicina
Flesh Fly Sarcophaga sp.
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
1 Painted Graphfly Graphomya maculata

One of the Flesh Flies Sarcophaga sp.

I have no idea what species this is.

And even when its wings were open, the pattern on the abdomen didn't help in IDing it.

A Painted Graphfly Graphomya maculata

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:
None

Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
None

Slugs and Snails Recorded:
Garden Snail Cornu aspersa

One of the many Garden Snails Cornu aspersa seen today. Which is not surprising considering how much rain we have had.

Spiders Recorded:
0 Wasp Spider Argiope bruennichi - Just the web left in the meadow

Plants:
Blackthorn Prunus spinosa
Bramble Rubus fruticosusa
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra
Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris
Cotoneaster Cotoneaster sp.
Dog Rose Rosa canina
Field Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis
Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna
Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum
Ivy Hedera helix
Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica
Provence Rose Rosa gallica
Red Valerian Centranthus ruber
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Wild Clematis Clematis vitalba

Wild Fennel Foeniculum vulgare