Friday 26 May 2017

























Not much in the trap but luckily only one May Bug; a Pale Tussock (NfG) on the fence panel and a couple of hours later another in the same place - don't know where it had been hiding! Just LBAMs, H&Ds, a Maidens Blush, Garden Carpet and a slightly worn Oligia spp. A pug got away.

In Chichester two singing Goldcrests, one in the front Yew trees and the other in the tea room garden. A small passerine, presumably a Starling brought in by the female Peregrine and earlier the male went off after an impossibly high Buzzard. Two whiter-than-white Med Gulls went west calling and the hot breezy conditions were ideal for the Swifts dashing around the spire.

Later at the park too hot for any birds and only one Firecrest singing. The lower sun-dappled path had several V. bombylans (first for year) and this Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis - a wasp-mimicking longhorn beetle). On the top path a Dingy Skipper dining on dog poo!! Plenty of Brimstones. Two male BBCs were staking claims to the pond area and perching up between dogfights.