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| This little Blue Tit was aware of my presence but totally unconcerned. |
Thursday was a beautiful spring day, lovely sunshine and for once very little
wind. I spent the morning at Ballachurry and came home and ate my lunch in the
garden for the first time this year!
Birds: ( There seemed to be Bluetits and Wrens everywhere!)
SC210694 Robin;
Bluetit;
SC209693 Robin; 2 x
Great Tit
SC209694 3 x
Wren together; 2 x Bluetit ( path junction)
SC209694 Wren; (
directly opposite hide ramp); Bluetit NOTE RING (I have made
a composite photo)
SC209694 Mallard
drake, Wood Pigeon (seen from Hide);
SC208694 Robin; 2 x
Bluetit ( near the dam)
SC208694 Great Tit (
near reed bed)
SC208695 Goldfinch;
Chaffinch; 2 x Great Tit; (beehive loop)
SC209695 2 x
Jackdaw; Wren; Great Tit;
SC209694 Robin; Magpie
( gorse boundary)
Not strictly in the
Reserve - adjoining thicket. SC209692. This is flooded at the moment. Drake
Mallard and Male Moorhen.
Carpet life: (I shall be resisting temptation to look under the same carpet
squares for a little while now that the snails have been identified, as I do
not like causing repeated disturbance to the habitat)
SC210694 Some
really tiny snails - too small to identify, presumably juveniles.
Another blue bodied snail -
smaller this time.
Shiny black slug/worm? Almost looked
like a leach. I had not seen anything like this before . New record when
identified.
Very small Harvestman which may be
Nemastoma bimaculatum (seeking confirmation of ID. My book says they may eat
very small snails!) New
Record.
SC208694 Unusual
white worm? Likewise something I have not seen before. New record when
identified.
Snail eggs. Very small red ants.
Hoverflies: ( first I
have seen this year)
SC210694 Marmalade
Hoverfly ? (Episyrphus balteatus) on elderberry tree next to Jelly Ear
fungus
SC208694 Marmalade
Hoverfly ? (Episyrphus balteatus) on gorse near reed bed -
sent off by honey bee
Shieldbugs:
SC208694 10x
Gorse Shieldbugs on gorse near reedbed.
SC209694 12 x
Gorse Shieldbugs along gorse boundary
Other:
SC210694 Jelly
Ear Fungus as mentioned above
Honey bees on gorse
throughout reserve
SC210694 Wolf spiders
in grass
SC209694 Wolf spider
on tree stake
SC209695 Primrose in
flower
SC209694 Cultivated
daffodils in flower
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| Note the ring on right leg |
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| Can almost read the ring when enlarged but not quite! |
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| Singing his heart out! |
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| Wren in the docks very close to Blue Tit |
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| Wren in a different part of Reserve |
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Jackdaws in boundary trees |
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| Mallard in flooded thicket next door |
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| Cultivated daffs now flowering |
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| Primroses |
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| Wolf spiders now out and about |
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| Is it a worm? Is it a slug? |
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| The above creature with £1 coin to give scale |
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| Another mystery - a worm perhaps? |
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| A tiny Harvestman |
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| Very small red ants |
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| Close -up of red ants. |
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| Snail eggs and red ants |
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| Hoverfly with Jelly Ear fungus - think it's the Marmalade Fly. |
Sorry some of the photos are twisted round - can't seem to stop this. The originals are the right way up.
