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Sunday at Ballachurry Reserve
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Another visit to the reserve today at 10 o'clock to set up the hedgehog tunnels and check the small mammal traps had food available for any passing mice. Once this was accomplished I walked round the Reserve for the rest of the morning enjoying the birdsong, the sunshine and the peace and quiet of a Sunday morning. Here is what I recorded:
Birds:
SC208695 Great Tit; Chiffchaff; male Chaffinch; 2 x Blue Tit; Goldfinch;
SC208694 Chaffinch; Blackcap heard but not seen; Willow Warbler
SC209695 Chaffinch; Willow Warbler; Wren; Woodpigeon.
SC209694 House Sparrow; pair of Mallard on pool; Moorhen flew in; Willow Warbler from SC208694 flew on to roof of hide and was taking insects from plants; Sedge Warbler and Blackcap heard but not seen from Hide; male Blackbird; Pheasant heard but not seen; Chaffinch heard but not seen; Woodpigeon flying over; 2 x Long Tailed Tit; 2 x Chiffchaff; female Blackcap seen briefly near new pond; 5 x Goldfinch; Magpie flying over.
Butterflies:
SC210694 male Orange Tip; Peacock; Small Tortoiseshell; Holly Blue; unidentified white flying
SC209695 2 x male Orange Tip having territorial dispute;Peacock; unidentified White flying
SC209693 male Orange Tip
SC209694 Red Admiral; Peacock; male Orange Tip; unidentified white flying.Orange Tip tried to send off basking Peacock.
SC208695 Speckled Wood
Other:
SC209694 9 x Gorse Shieldbug; Crab spider in gorse.
SC209693 Hare's Foot Inkcap fungi
SC208694Hare's Foot Inkcap fungi
SC210694 Honey bee
SC210694 Wolf Spider
SC208694 Wolf Spider
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a pair of Mallard on the pond
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both feeding - heads down!
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coming up for air - heads up!
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Moorhen has become a regular
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admiring its own reflection?
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Chiffchaff near the new pond
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you can see its shorter wings in this picture (Willow Warblers' are longer)
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this is a Willow Warbler - having sung for a while...
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it flew to the roof of the hide
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where it was finding things to eat on this plant
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possibly some sort of sow thistle?
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House Sparrow
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Woodpigeon
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yet another Willow Warbler singing
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Long Tailed Tit
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a much quieter day than Saturday - just Church bells!
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I think these are Aspens on the Church boundary
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Red Campion
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male Orange Tip
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and another elsewhere
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there were several Peacocks on the Reserve
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dandelions are an important food source
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| this Peacock was basking on the mud of the new pond | | |
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a very ragged Small Tortoiseshell
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and a rather more pristine one
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Speckled Wood - they like dappled shade
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I am watching the blossom develop on this Hawthorn
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view along the gorse boundary - not a cloud in sight
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male crab spider in the gorse
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and a Gorse Shieldbug
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honey bees like dandelions too
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Another Hare'sfoot Inkcap has come up near the boardwalk site
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but these were at the opposite side of the Reserve
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Wolf spider among the hard core for the boardwalk foundations
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another on a slab propped up the wall
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here is a Longworth small mammal trap
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I had to check the bedding and food inside
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and replenish when necessary
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today I added paper and "paint" to the Hedgehog tunnel
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Ginnie's Memorial Tree in flower
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a final look back from near the new pond
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please click on photos to enlarge them
