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| View from the Hide on a lovely blue-sky day |
Birds:
SC209694 ( Hide) Moorhen; Hybrid Mallard ( drake)
SC208695 ( old beehive loop) Wood Pigeon; Great Tit; Willow Warbler
SC209695 ( stream) I climbed the bank to check the pipe was not blocked and had a lovely view of a Song Thrush bathing in the water
SC209694 ( path junction) Great Tit; Willow Warbler
Flying over: Herring gulls; Swallow; Hooded Crow
Heard but not seen:
SC209693 ( reeds in front of church boundary) Sedge Warbler
SC208694 (firs) Willow Warbler; Chiffchaff;
SC209694 (from hide) Pheasant; Willow Warbler; Sedge Warbler
SC208694 (reed bed) Moorhen
Butterflies:
SC210694 male Orange Tip (several sightings during afternoon) ; larger unidentified white; 4 Small Tortoiseshells flying together after two of them interrupted courtship of the other pair.
SC210694 Wall Brown ( 1st of the year)
SC209693 male Orange Tip
SC209694 Small Tortoiseshell and male Orange Tip both on Cuckoo flowers; 2 x Small White
SC209695 Unidentified White flying ; Small Tortoiseshell
SC209694 male Orange Tip chasing unidentified White
SC208694 (bar-mown meadow area) male Orange Tip on Cuckoo flowers
There are OrangeTip eggs on Cuckoo Flowers and on the Garlic Mustard which I planted last year.
Moths:
SC210694 Clouded Border NEW RECORD
Beetles:
SC209693 Large Back beetle under carpet and another crossing the path
Other:
SC209695 Common Wasp
SC209694 ( gorse boundary)Crane fly; unidentified small black fly
SC209694 ( willows) Crane Fly; Hoverfly; Bumble Bee
SC209694 there are Caddisfly larvae on the stones in the stream
SC209695 & SC209694 there are Gorse Shieldbug eggs on several of the gorse bushes. Not many Shieldbugs seen though.
SC209694 mysterious cracking noises coming from the undergrowth turned out to be the white hen from next door.
SC209694 the hide has a number of spider nests and a large spider. What, in the gloom, looked like a moth caught in a web may be, in fact, the beginning of a wasp nest. We need to monitor this.
SC208694 Hawthorn in blossom
SC209695 Rowan in blossom
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| Small Tortoiseshell on Cuckoo Flower |
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| Courting Small Tortoiseshells |
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| Takes a while.... |
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| just at this moment they were interrupted by 2 other Small Torts |
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| Crane Fly |
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| another Crane Fly |
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| Caddis Fly larvae |
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| Gorse Shieldbug eggs |
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| next door's hen |
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| Great Tit |
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| Hybrid Mallard |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| and another |
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| Rowan blossom |
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| Hawthorn blossom |
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| Wildflower "garden" under the notice board |
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| Spider in the hide |
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| spider nest |
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| Clouded Border moth |
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| unidentified fly |
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| unidentified Hoverfly |
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| Wall Brown butterfly |
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| is this the start of a wasp's nest? |
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| can you spot the orange egg of the Orange Tip butterfly? |
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| Male Orange Tip butterfly |
