Thursday 16 July 2020

Bits and bobs






















Flat battery and no spares at PHP Friday so no photos and just Gymnosoma rotundatum, Chrysotoxum bicinctum and a few Ectemnius spp. No birds of note.

Monday at TH with the above insects -  Paracorymbia fulva, Rutpela maculata, Conops quadrifasciatus, Eriothrix rufomaculata. An Ancistrocerus spp was trying to land on the camera whilst photographing the latter and the tachinid Phania funesta popped up again.
Birdwise singles of Knot and Dunlin, 100+ Black'wit, one 'fluffball' Avocet chick plus sixty odd adults and full-grown juveniles. Four Sandwich Terns exited the reserve but no sign of the Roseate Tern. Brief chats with IC, MF and IM.