Sunday 15 June 2014

There's a Place For Us (Somewhere) - PJ Proby

Another lovely sunny day yesterday, with decent temperatures continuing overnight, with some cloud cover, resulting in the best catch of the year so far this morning. There is still some investigation ongoing but thus far we have identified 67 species of Macro. Here are a few of them:-
 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
 SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
 GREEN PUG
 BORDERED WHITE
always perch with folded wings, however this morning we tried putting
this one under glass and was, from time to time, obliging.

 SALLOW KITTEN
 CORONET
new to the property.
 7-SPOT LADYBIRD
Later (much) in the day a few hours were spent at that fine
Nature Reserve that is Blashford Lakes, Hampshire.
 CUT-LEAVED CRANESBILL
 AZURE DAMSELFLY
and with the main target of the day being 'young' birds
it was rewarding to see

 LAPWING
 fledglings plus a couple of distant yet recently hatched
 BLACK-HEADED GULL
COMMON BLUE DAMSELFLY
 Opening the viewing port at the Goosander hide another youngster
 this time a
MALLARD

developing its 'dabbling technique.
adult
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
followed by extremely mobile young
 GREAT TIT
 and
LONG-TAILED TIT
 With a little stealth and seemingly in no hurry a juvenile
 LITTLE GREBE
 was foraging among the water-weed.
 Just thought this FERN looked rather nice giving the area
a bit of a sub-tropical feel.
 On the Ivy Lake
BLACK-HEADED GULLs
are still incubating eggs, a little disappointing as it was thought
that these and the COMMON TERNs on the man-made rafts
 might have had young by now.
 LONG-STALKED CRANESBILL
and
LONG-STALKED CRANESBILL with
RED-TAILED BUMBLEBEE
 My first
MEADOW BROWN
of the year.
 PERFORATE ST JOHN'S WORT
followed by a very lucky find just before leaving.
Wikipedia states that
 Xanthogramma pedissequum
 is an uncommon European species of hoverfly. Little is known of its
larval stages, it has been found in nests of the ant Lasius niger,
and in with the root aphids Forda formicaria and Trama sp.
Another 'first' for me to end another great day at this very special place.
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