Birds: Chiffchaff, Juvenile Moorhen.
Butterflies: Comma, Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Small Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White, Speckled Wood.
Moth: Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet.
Damselflies: Azure, Large Red.
Dragonflies: Brown Hawker.
Mammals: Water Vole droppings on monitoring raft.
Other invertebrates: Black and Yellow Longhorn Beetle Rutpela maculata, a Cleg-fly (click on the photo to admire the colourful eyes and mottled wings) Haematopota sp., Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva, a gall mite Eriophyes crataegi causing pale patches on Hawthorn leaves, a gall mite Phyllocoptes goniothorax causing tight rolls on the edges of Hawthorn leaves.
Ogston Sightings
- Sunday 28 April 2024
1 Blackcap, 1 BH Gull, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Buzzard, 1 Canada Goose, 1 Carrion…
- Saturday 27 April 2024
5 Cormorant, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Swift, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Wren, 1 Great Tit, 1…
- Friday 26 April 2024
1M Common Scoter, 1 Reed Warbler, 18 Goosander, 10 Gadwall, 3 Goldeneye, 2 Teal, 2…
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