Now before I visited Narroways this morning I nearly posted on the FB page that I wanted to find the hoverfly
on the reserve. I'd seen my first ever only on Friday in North Somerset, but the BRERC map shows this species to only be recorded away from urban sites - the nearest sightings are in Kingswood and Filton. Imagine my delight when I found one of these handsome animals on the hill!
Butterflies: 1
Common Blue, c30
Meadow Brown, 1
Marbled White, 10
Gatekeeper, 1
Red Admiral (stony path), 1
Speckled Wood (same place), 5
Small/Essex Skipper. Couldn't find any definite Ringlets, oddly enough.
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| Gatekeeper |
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| Speckled Wood |
The only birds of note were
Goldcrest at the brook (found by Guy Watson who I bumped into) a couple of
Swifts,
Goldfinches and
Greenfinches over the cutting.
Lots of
Thick-thighed Flower-beetles and
Soldier Beetles.
Bees were mainly
Red-tailed Bumblebees with several
Buff-tailed/White-tailed Bumblebees. 2
Leaf-cutter Bees and an
Andrena sp. mining bee I couldn't get a photo of.
A
Common Darter dragonfly buzzing round the scrubby area at stony path/cutting. A couple of
Long-horned Moths on cutting.
Two Tachinid flies -
Eriothrix rufomaculata and another,
Phania funesta.
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| Eriothrix rufomaculata |
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| Phania funesta. |
A tiny Mirid bug on a bindweed flower might well be
Plagiognathus arbustorum - very common apparently.
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| Mirid bug |
Back in Montpelier, a
Harlequin Ladybird and some
Vervain in flower at Fairlawn Road. An
Opium Poppy growing out of the pavement in Richmond Road.
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| Vervain |
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| Opium Poppy |
St Andrews Park was not particularly productive, just another
Eriothrix rufomaculata of note.
In the flat this morning was a
Lesser Yellow Underwing moth.
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| Lesser Yellow Underwing |
Yesterday I found some just-hatched moth larvae on the bedroom wall!
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| Moth larvae in the bedroom |
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