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Not my usual opening picture! The compost area.
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I took advantage of the fine weather on Monday to make my final visit of August to the Reserve. Here is what I recorded:
Birds:
SC209694 Mallard; juvenile Moorhen; Blackbird; Swallow flying over.
SC208694 Robin; Water Rail ( this was feeding by the boardwalk bridge. I didn't see it so put it up as I walked over the bridge. It flew off along the stream and vanished into the reeds. It gave me quite a fright!)
SC209695 4 x Blackbirds together taking berries from Rowan near Private entrance.
Butterflies:
SC209694 Speckled Wood x 3; Small Tortoiseshell x 2; Common Blue
SC208694 Common Blue x 2 ; Speckled Wood ;
SC208695 Speckled Wood x 3
Ladybirds:
SC209694 2 x 7-spot on thistles and 4 in gorse
Other:
SC209694 2 x Gorse Shieldbugs in gorse
SC210694 Carder Bee on Burdock flowers
SC210694 Marmalade fly ( Episyrphus balteatus)
SC209695 Marmalade fly ( Episyrphus balteatus); Eristalis pertinax; Eristalis tenax
SC209694 Acorns on the Oak trees for the first time
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Very surprised to see there are still berries on the Rowan
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| pillaged by Blackbirds daily |
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| still plenty to go round |
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and oh so tasty!
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| this young bird was taking them from elsewhere on the reserve |
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resident Mallard
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| and resident Moorhen |
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| Common Blue in the meadow |
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Speckled Wood
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| Small Tortoiseshell |
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| Carder Bee, I think. |
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Some Ladybirds on the Reserve appear to be hibernating already
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| but this 7-spot was still active |
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| Eristalis tenax on Cushag ( Ragwort) |
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| Probably Eristalis pertinaxHoverfly |
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Marmalade fly - Episyrphus balteatus
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| and another elsewhere |
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| this might be a Hawthorn Shieldbug nymph - red shoulders just starting |
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| an autumnal look to the Reserve now |
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| a close up of the new structures on the roof |
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the acorns are very large
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Loosestrife in the meadow mostly over now
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| looking over the meadow to the hills |
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| and finally......... |
With thanks to Steve Crellin for Fly ID's
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