Parakeet - R.E.M.

LATE UPDATE
Omitted from the Wembley day report, the sighting of a single in-flight

 RING-NECKED PARAKEET

 as Andy and I waited for Hugh at the bottom of Wembley Hill Road. 

A Year Tick!

No transport today, but with Hugh having business to attend to in Ringwood he was only too happy to drop me off at

and collect me later in the day.

Since my visit last week, much has changed there particularly the new road and path to the Visitor's Centre (almost complete) and 'plant life' now mostly in leaf or flower. Of these plants

 WILD ARUM

is particularly abundant which is also known by a variety of optional names such as Lords and Ladies, Devils and Angels, Cows and Bulls, Cuckoo-Pint, Adam and Eve, Bobbins, Naked Boys, Starch-Root and Wake Robin.

 
 The winter berries are also familiar to many
(photos Wiki)

VIOLET is also plentiful and attracting dozens of

ORANGE-TIP (female) BUTTERFLIES
Down at Ivy Lake and nearby bird hides it was a case of
Species as Usual but none the less interesting or beautiful
for all that!

GOLDFINCH

Male
  

and Female CHAFFINCH

and at very 'close quarters' an untroubled

Cock PHEASANT

NUTHATCH

SISKIN with GOLDFINCH

Male SISKIN

and GREY SQUIRREL
to name but a few.

PRIMROSES
lined the path on the walk to the other side of the Reserve
and the Lapwing Hide where first on show was
 
LITTLE GREBE

and a species you don't often get this close to.
 
LAPWING
simply got closer and closer

and on its occasional turns, stern to wind,

presented and even better picture

with crest and feathers ruffled.

Common Terns now abound at the site along with Tufted Duck
and just c2 Dunlin but as I turned to leave

c9 EGYPTIAN GEESE flew in ending the visit with a Year Tick

and a pretty Flower
COMMON STORKSBILL.
Totals
Year = 107
Dorset = 80