Ballachurry Reserve, 29th October, 2018

Autumn at Ballachurry Reserve

I again managed to visit the Reserve at 9.30 on a Monday morning but compared to the previous week saw very little. Although sunny, there was a cold wind and I think everything was keeping warm down in the vegetation. Here is my list:

Birds:
SC209694 ( gorse boundary) Blackbird
SC210694  ( near entrance) Robin
SC209694 ( from hide) male Chaffinch in water weed; Sparrowhawk; Kestrel mobbed by corvid; Great Tit; Blackbird.
SC208694 ( compost area) Robin; Grey Heron flying over
SC208694 ( willows) Blackbird

Other:
SC209693 Wasp
SC210694 Flies in nettles, including Yellow Dung Flies
SC209693 Noon Fly
SC209694 Fungi on wood chip path
SC209694 Hibernating 7-spot Ladybird
SC210694 unidentified larva on notice board

a rather odd photo of a male Chaffinch
 down amongst the Brooklime in the pond

Great Tit

Sparrowhawk ( I think!)

too far away for my binoculars, over on the church boundary

wasp warming up on a leaf

Yellow Dung fly also keeping warm on the nettles

Noon fly

another Dung Fly or maybe something different?

fungi still coming up on the wood chip paths

I almost missed this hibernating 7-spot ladybird

with leaves off the trees
we can now spot where the birds were nesting

absolutely no idea what this is!
behind the perspex on the noticeboard

Robin still enjoying the insects in the compost heap

a timely reminder to buy my Christmas cards perhaps?