Sunday 13 May 2012

From St Werburghs to St Andrews

The lovely sunshine today encouraged some nice butterflies on the patch - a Small White at the railway path and Orange-tip, Brimstone and Large White at the station.

The Scrapstore car park in Sevier Street was full of flowers attracting a Buff-tailed Bumblebee and a flower beetle (probably Oedemera sp.) plus a micro-moth that evaded attempts to photograph it. At Fairlawn Road there were about 5 Harlequin Ladybirds and a Green Shieldbug.


Probable Oedemera sp.
t St Andrews Park what looked like my first ever Tawny Mining Bee was sat on the ground near the bowling club. UPDATE: This was in fact a Red Mason Bee Osmia rufa.



Red Mason Bee
 It was quiet bird-wise, the highlights being 5 Swifts distantly from the station, a juvenile Blackbird on St Barnabas School playing field, a gaggle of Starlings at Cobourg Road, Blackcaps at Fairlawn Road and the station and a Chiffchaff at Fairlawn Road. Coal Tit and Mistle Thrush were heard at St Andrews Park.

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