The sunny weather brought out the dragonflies and the odonata
year list doubled today with a cracking Brown Hawker, the first Common Blue damselfly
I’ve had this year (although as they tend to stay out over the water I may well
have missed them before), an Emperor Dragonfly…
And a Migrant Hawker perched high in a tree…
Only one Banded Demoiselle though, compared with the dozens
seen this time last year.
The sun also encouraged a few butterflies, with half a dozen
Meadow Browns and Ringlets along with four Speckled Wood and a handful of Small
and Large Whites in the Magic Garden. Yesterday at the parish barbeque at
Swalefields there were a couple of Small Tortoiseshells which have been very scarce this year. What I think was a Green Carpet moth was also briefly seen in
a hedgerow here…
Hedgehogs have also been distinctly scarce in the village this
year but July is often a good month to spot the less secretive youngsters and
this one was in the Magic garden…
The only bird news of interest was another report of Green
Woodpecker heard calling by a villager. This species hasn’t been recorded in Ainderby
since the 1960s so is there an elusive bird about?
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