Today I went up to the site to help Gerry with some scrub-cutting … he does the actual cutting while I stand guard and make sure he doesn’t have an accident with the equipment. But this left me with time to wander around and look at wildlife. It was such a glum day though that [...]
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Found this really lovely giant aphid* today … it’s about 1cm long. There were also a few Ephemera vulgata & lineata plus all of the usual butterflies; a few demoiselles and perhaps 1 Club-tailed dragonfly. (* Tony Irwin suggests that it might be Cinara piceae) Birds: Red Kite, Buzzard, Kestrel & Hobby Butterflies: Dingy Skipper, Grizzled Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Speckled Wood, Small Heath & Common Blue #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } a rubytail wasp (Chrysis sp.) Deadly Nightshade a parasite fly (Dufouria chalybeata) a scorpion fly (Panorpa communis, male) Had a tiring but very enjoyable day on the reserve yesterday. I was very keen to see what it looked like because we had had some heavy rain – the first for nearly 2 months! Gerry & I spent the morning workparty revisiting all the mapped squares, noting down which orchids were in flower but [...] The recent winds haven’t abated yet so everything is blowing about up on the reserve, but in general the orchids and invertebrates are doing as well as expected. I counted about 96 hybrids in flower but most of them are small this year and a few are hiding in the grass where they are difficult [...] |
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