Posted by Ian Mixed bag of weather over the last two days,temperatures still well up but a change today with heavy rain in the afternoon which made walking in waterproofs very warm. Early this morning crows were mobbing a large-ish low flying raptor over the dunes,got a couple of pics but were not clear enough […]
Another month down, they’re falling like twelve pins !! The Tufted family are still complete but have moved to another pond, the ducklings are growing fast, see photo. Caught the Cob napping this morning, must have had a hard night with the kids. On the way down the long pond two Little Grebe were having […]
All the large Hawkers have disappeared possibly due to the heavy rain but there are still a few Common Darters about and common Blue Damselfly. The rain certainly not affected the number of Gatekeepers there are clouds lifting off the grass as you walk, did come across a lonely Painted Lady on the dispersal road. […]
We have been watching lots of young birds at the feeders but the Bullfinches appeared to be a bit shy until the other day, one settled on a branch in the early morning sun and then was followed by a quickly maturing Robin. This warm spell has produced an abundance of moths in the garden […]
Visited the tower early yesterday morning hoping to see the young and on arrival, found an adult stood at the bottom, normally in previous years they have been on top of the tank. After about ten minutes it took off and flew over the fields, only to return five minutes later but not carrying any […]
Pleased to see the family of tufted ducks, still with nine ducklings. Quite a few dragonflies around today, including 4-spot chaser, black-tailed darter and a brown hawker. Managed a rather poor photo of the dsrter on the path by the main pool – just couldn’t get close to it. Some marsh helleborines in flower, though […]
Lew told us he had spotted seven Sand Leeks on the old Vickers tip , not seen these before so had a look and took a couple of photos, and then had a wander around, for such a small area there is an abundance of flowers and took photos of some. Lew, Bob and Bri
These very warm days and nights have brought out lots of butterflies and dragonflies, Lew normally does a count on his way around and these are his figures, Yesterday – 320 Meadow Brown, 2 Small Heath, 8 Gatekeepers and 49 Grayling. Today – 27 Gatekeepers, 1 Black-tailed Skimmer, 2 Emperor, 3 Brown Hawker, 3 Four […]
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As Ian said it was a few degrees cooler morning, enough to keep the Damselflies and Dragonflies tucked up out of sight but in the afternoon the temperature rose and on Mill Lane Pond there was an Emperor, Brown Hawker and a few Four Spots, managed a shot of the Emperor settled on some reeds. […]