Bird ‘highlight’ (it’s a very low bar!) was a Little Grebe, a very vocal (but elusive) bird in the Magic Garden.
They have nested here in the past but this was my first sighting of the year.
There was also some bird movement on Monday, presumably ahead of the cooler weather, with two Sedge Warblers in the magic garden (my first since some briefly singing birds in April) and around a dozen Chiffchaff there. Chris had a nice male Redstart and a Hobby near the river on the same day.
I saw what was
possibly the same Hobby chasing Swallows in the village on Friday evening.
Today Chris picked up Common Sandpiper on the river and an amazing total of 15 Little Egret. An inconceivable sighting even a few years
ago.
John came over on Wednesday to do the first moth trapping in
the village this year. This time we just ran a single trap at a new site,
Ladyfield. In the end the expected warm, humid evening did not materialise but
we still managed 70 moths of 21 species.
These included two new micros for the parish, a Skin Moth…
which feed on things like dead animals, owl pellets etc.
And this Straw Conch…
We also caught four of these handsome Feathered Gothics…
I continue my slow progress on finding and identifying the more
obvious hoverflies, this is I believe a Tapered Drone Fly…
And on the neighbouring plant I photographed this little
potter wasp, I think one of the symmorphus family but not sure of the species…
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