Week 6: John Parlby endured a pleasantly balmy visit to the reserve to count the butterflies. It was 24 degrees Celsius and cloudless, so not surprisingly John produced the best count of the year to date: 33 in total, of … Continue reading
Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Blue tit, Pheasant, Woodpigeon. Orange tip 5, Green-vein White 4, Peacock 2, Speckled Wood 1. Large Red damselfly. Badger and Tawny Owl seen whilst setting up moth trap later in the day.
Amphibians: Common Frog (MP), Smooth Newt (BP). Birds: Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue Tit, Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Pheasant, Robin, Woodpigeon. Butterflies: Green-veined White, Orange Tip, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell. Other invertebrates: Woundwort Shieldbug Mammals: Rabbit (droppings). In flower: … Continue reading
Week 5 and the recent weather more late winter/early Spring than May. Alan Kydd sighted a Peacock, and a white (possibly a female Orange Tip).
Hoverflies: Platycheirus rosarum (male), platycheirus sp. (female), Melanostoma scalare (female). Cantharis nigra, Cantharis Rufus, Large Red damselfly, Azure damselfly, Speckled Wood 3, Green vein White 5, Orange tip 4, Common Carpet 2, Nettle tap, Lattice Heath 1, Grass Rivulet 1, … Continue reading
N. Mahadevan: Whitethroat, Blackbird, Chiffchaff, Songthrush. Green-veined White 4, Orange Tip 4, Red Admiral 1, Small Tortoiseshell 1 (worn), Peacock 1, Brimstone 1, Speckled Wood 1. Small Tortoiseshell caterpillars on Nettles. Moths: plenty of Diamond-back Moth (Plutella xylostella), Silver-ground moth, … Continue reading
The first four weeks of butterfly transect recording coincided with a period of weather not ideally suited to the task. Nevertheless members tried their best to pick out the best conditions, locating: Week 1: a Small Tortoiseshell Week 2: nothing … Continue reading
Whitethroat, Chiffchaff Chaffinch, Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Blue tit, Carrion Crow, Great tit, Mallard, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Robin, Tree creeper. Brown Hare, fresh Water Vole droppings. From ispot: Greater Water-moss (Fontinalis antipyretica) – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/792568
Robin, Wren, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, LT Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Crow, Woodpigeon, Tree Creeper, Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Moorhen, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Common Buzzard, Goldfinch, Whitethroat, Mallard. Peacock, Orange Tip, Green Veined White, Small Tortoiseshell Grey Squirrel P Beard … Continue reading
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Early after emptying the moth trap: Blackbird, Great tit, Blue tit, Chiffchaff, Woodpigeon, Pheasant, Wren, Robin. Also 2 Brown Hare, 1 Rabbit and 1 Squirrel. Additional sightings later am with JD: Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Buzzard, Jay, Carrion Crow, Blackcap heard, Mallard. Orange-tip … Continue reading
