It was a day spent in the garden, mowing the lawn, dead-heading the roses and a lot of weeding. In between it was a case of putting my feet up and enjoying the Autumn sunshine, which was very warm.
Main highlights were 2 Siskins (my first this year) and a few Meadow Pipits overhead, whilst in the garden there was a Dunnock, a Robin and a Wren all feeding within 10 feet from where I was sat.
Also of note was a Hummingbird Hawk-moth on the Buddleia. The latter running out of flowers fast.
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4+ Meadow Pipit
1 Dunnock
1 Robin
Blackbird
1 Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
2 Siskin
Goldfinch
And it looks like the local Robin has taken up its Winter quarters in the back garden. Time for those mealworms again.
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4+ Meadow Pipit
1 Dunnock
1 Robin
Blackbird
1 Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
2 Siskin
Goldfinch
A Goldfinch on the Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus right at the back of the garden.
Feral pigeon
Butterflies Recorded:
5 Large White Pieris brassicae
3 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
A male Large White Pieris brassicae
A Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta on one of the last Buddleia Buddleja davidii flowers in the back garden.
1 Hummingbird Hawk-moth Macroglossum stellatarum
2 Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella
This Hummingbird Hawk-moth Macroglossum stellatarum proved..............
........to be very difficult to photograph.
A Pellitory Beauty Cosmopterix pulchrimella on............
..............the leaf of a Pellitory-of-the-wall Parietaria judaicais
4 Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum
1 Honey Bee Apis mellifera
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum on Lavender Lavandula sp.
And another Common Carder Bee.
1 Wasp sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
8 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
1 The Footballer Helophilus pendulus
2 Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
8 Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax
1 The Footballer Helophilus pendulus
2 Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii
A Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax sat on a Common Fig Ficus carica
The Footballer Helophilus pendulus
A Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii
Many unidentified flies
Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
1 Common Tiger Fly Coenosia tigrina
Well you can see why this fly goes by the name of Common Tiger Fly Coenosia tigrina. Here it is devouring a fly sp. It also goes by the names of Hunter Fly or Killer Fly
A Greenbottle Lucilia sp.
Plants:
Buckthorn Rhamnus sp.
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common Fig Ficus carica
English Oak Quercus robur
Lavender Lavandula sp.
Pellitory-of-the-wall Parietaria judaicais
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Buckthorn Rhamnus sp.
Buddleia Buddleja davidii
Common Fig Ficus carica
English Oak Quercus robur
Lavender Lavandula sp.
Pellitory-of-the-wall Parietaria judaicais
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
The neighbours fully laden Buckthorn Rhamnus sp.