Friday 17 June 2016

Home, Iping, QECP

Early check of Moth Trap produced little but included, Dark Arches and Peppered Moth, being new, and two smart Bufftips.

Full English at Maple Ridge where a Kite, two Sparrowhawk and ten Swift. On Iping usual stuff, the best being Woodlark and Tree Pipits. Several new male Silver-studded Blues and various moths (Speckled Yellow, Latticed Heath) and hoverflies plus Common Damselfly and Four-spotted Chaser.

Later, at QECP, three singing Firecrests. The umbellifers were stuffed with mini-beasts including Nowickia ferox and Leucozona laternaria. On the pond male Emperor Dragonfly and male Broad-bodied Chaser.




Vollucella pellucens(m)