Weatherwise yesterday was a very dull day and with not a lot to show and,
looking out there as we knock up this post, it looks likely to be worse today?
However, there is an antidote by way of a couple of images send by one of our
Weymouth correspondents who ventured further afield (about 2 miles to Southill) to capture this fine beauty.
ROSY STARLING
If this doesn't start your day with a BANG then I might have to pop round with the Boys?
Like the man said, if you have any flocks of Starlings in your area
it may be rewarding to sift through them to find one of these as there has been an influx lately.
Only a single new species of Moth for the year a
FOUR-DOTTED FOOTMAN
but along with it
a miniscule
RED-LEGGED SHIELDBUG NYMPH
(thanks John)
(thanks John)
and the second of the year
PRIVET HAWK-MOTH
just couldn't resist sharing it!
Otherwise on the main pond a Whitethroat was heard but not seen as the parent
CANADA GEESE
are now parading their new arrivals
to a
Wider Audience
Holding on to the same theme at the Gravel Pit the now rapidly growing
COOT CHICK
continues to do well.
We thought that was all of it, but leaving the pond-side a movement
in the reeds proved to be another
COOT'S NEST
with again just a single youngster but carrying out what was considered to be
Strange Behaviour
Building or Repairing the Nest
we have never noted such a thing before and before leaving the lone
Juvenile Little Grebe
hove into view seemingly doing very well as is the also 'single'
Juv MOORHEN
Getting towards the end of the day we decided to have a
GALA BIRD EXPERIENCE
that is to say, we threw the remains of yesterday's lunch a
Gala Pie
onto the lawn and just waited, camera in hand, to view what turned up.
It didn't amount to a great deal
but feel we rather overlook or ignor completely the more common species such as
BLACK-HEADED GULL
(we could watch them all day)
now rather well fed
WOOD PIGEON
along with female
BLACKBIRD
which wasn't hanging around for any footage!
