What a difference a week or so makes, everything was green and lush. The flowers on the Hawthorns might be going over now, but the meadows are really bursting with colour. In the Spring it was covered in Cowslips, but now it was a sea of yellow Buttercups and Yellow-rattle. Mixed in amongst them was Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Meadow Cranesbill, Clover and possibly Wild Clary.
A sea of yellow
Yellow-rattle
Yellow-rattle
Mouse-ear Hawkweed
Mouse-ear Hawkweed
Meadow Cranesbill
Meadow Cranesbill
Chiffchaff
Chiffchaff
Chiffchaff
The rain might not have dampened the spirits of the birds, but it certainly had an effect on the butterflies. The only one I came across was a Holly Blue. If the butterflies were non-existent, the bugs and flies certainly weren't and below are a few I came across. The ones I have ID'd are Meadow Plant Bug Leptopterna dolabrata nymph, Nursery Web Spider, Flesh Fly, Noon-fly, Dark Bush Cricket there were lots of young ones, Scorpion Fly, Cluster Fly, Soldier Beetle and Melanostoma scalare Hoverfly
Possible Melanostoma scalare Hoverfly
Nursery Web Spider
Leptopterna dolabrata nymph
Leptopterna dolabrata nymph
Flesh Fly
Mesembrina meridiana sometimes known as the Noon-fly
A young Dark Bush Cricket
Fly sp.
Fly sp.
Scorpion Fly
Scorpion Fly
A Cluster Fly I believe
Soldier Beetle
And finally no walk would be complete without seeing a Rabbit.
Rabbit
Birds recorded: 1 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Wood Pigeon, 2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 adult and 1+ juveniles in a nest , 1 Skylark, 1 Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, 3 Garden Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, 8+ Blackcap, 7+ Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Chaffinch, Goldfinch and Bullfinch.
Butterflies: 1 Holly Blue
Other insects: Nursery Web Spider, Flesh Fly, Noon-fly, Dark Bush Cricket there were lots of young ones, Scorpion Fly, Cluster Fly, Melanostoma scalare Hoverfly and Soldier Beetle. Plus one or two Flies sp.
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