Really on a roll now! Catching up fast - you can tell it's a wet afternoon! This is my final posting for June, so almost up to date:
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| Ballachurry Reserve on a hot Friday afternoon |
This was a recording visit but the reserve was really very quiet - I scarcely saw or hear a bird. Perhaps it was just too hot. The butterflies & ladybirds were loving the sunshine though.
Butterflies:
SC210694 Meadow Brown
SC209693 Meadow Brown
SC208694 Meadow Brown,
SC208695 Speckled Wood
SC209694 ( gorse boundary) 2 x Meadow Brown
SC209694 (path junction) Meadow Brown,
Birds:
SC209694 Sedge Warbler
SC209694 Hide 3 x Moorhen chicks
SC209694 Willow Warbler heard but not seen.
Ladybirds:
SC209694 5 x 7spot Ladybirds
SC209695 2 x 7spot Ladybirds
SC208694 2 x 7-spot Ladybird
SC208694 2 x 7-spot Pupae
SC210694 Just before leaving I took down a notice from the notice board but discovered a ladybird pupa stuck to the back of it! ( I put it back)
Other:
SC208695 Forest Bug nymph?
SC209694 Capsid bugs on thistles, black aphids
SC208695 and throughout reserve, Soldier Beetles
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| 3 young Moorhen chicks |
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| Sedge Warbler |
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| black thistle aphids |
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| 7-spot Ladybird |
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| and another |
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| 7-spots eat aphids so always worth checking out the thistles |
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| they seemed to be everywhere |
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| again looking for aphids on the thistles |
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| pupa on back of notice on the noticeboard |
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| ladybird pupa in more conventional location |
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| we should have lots of 7-spots on the reserve shortly |
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| this one is on Hemlock Water Dropwort |
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| our turf roof is suffering in the drought |
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| and the water level is falling in the pond |
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| Marsh Woundwort now in full flower |
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| must key this one out - can never remember what it is! |
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| not a cloud in the sky |
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| the damp meadow is not quite as damp as usual |
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| Common Capsid bugs on thistles |
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Purple Loosestrife and Hemlock Water Dropwort
growing together near the stream |
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| Shieldbug nymph on green Rowan berries |
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| view across the meadow to the Hide |
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| Soldier Beetle |
My next posting will be for 16th July.
