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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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Friday, 13 June 2014

Swallow - Placebo

Internet problems again today and it would seem just my luck that the very moment they fix the problem at Harbins I decide to move on with the snags following me? However, if this does get to Post then you will know that somehow I have succeeded in getting access. Despite a fair rise in overnight temperature total Moth numbers and species appear to have both dropped off quite dramatically over the past couple of nights. That may be due to clear skies and a 'full moon', neither of which contribute to this pursuit. Anyway

SCALLOPED HAZEL
was new for the year and to the Parley photo album as last years
only specimen took to flight before being committed to the flash card.

CABBAGE MOTH
was also a Year Tick with those that follow now turning up
in the traps on a daily basis.

WHITE POINT

and again
showing some size and colour variation.

HEART and DART

The Micro
CELYPHA LACUNANA

11-SPOT LADYBIRD

FUNGI

from different angles.
A very quick visit to the north end of
Parley Court Farm
in pursuit of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker which it would seem has gone?

SILAGE GRASS FIELD today,
Phase II of the SOLAR PANEL FARM starting tomorrow.

A very lucky chance viewing of the
RED ARROWS
'Bomb-Bursting' directly overhead.

Not so lucky, the settings on the camera had not been checked
with the first 12 frames being a blank white screen!

COWARDS MARSH
has now been turned over to Commoner's Grazing and looked
more like a John Constable (Horse-Scape) painting, and low and behold
on my 'forth' visit this month, there in all its glory was 'the'

GLOSSY IBIS

my first ever June record in Dorset.
It was even possible to 'sex' this individual as a female not because
of the great ornithological skills of the observer, but it bears a French
leg-mark attached there I believe last year.

LITTLE EGRET

followed by a HERCULES TRANSPORT

heading for Bournemouth International Airport.

Back at Parley and a siting of a local

(Silver-back) PHEASANT

and what were considered a decent run

of images

of the

SWALLOW

nesting in the Harbins garage.

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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Sorrel - Wishbone Ash (Wishbone IV album)

"Absence makes the hear grow fonder" it is often said, but just what exactly is absent makes all the difference. If it's the Internet then you can't check you Premium Bonds, or get the latest Bird News or put out a Blog Post. Never mind just in the nick of time just a little bit of juice squeezed across the ether (or whatever it is they get to power such a thing) so before it dries up I'll get on with it!
Over the last couple of nights the traps have been attracting Insects like nobodies business, with some better photos to come later but in addition being busy elsewhere has also got in the way a bit, so for what it's worth here goes........