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| male Beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo |
Adonis Blue numbers have increased at Mill Hill since last week. Thursday's transect walk: Adonis Blue 21, Brimstone, Common Blue 3, Green Hairstreak
2, Peacock, Small Heath 3, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White, Speckled Wood, Cinnabar,
Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Burnet Companion. Leaf Beetles were mating. At the car park a Kestrel caught a lizard and
ate it on a fence post.
Afterwards I visited Woods Mill NR where Common Blue
Damselflies were abundant, also Large Red Damselflies seen. I heard and saw one
of the 3 Turtle Doves which have been reported there.
On Friday I took Sue to Woods Mill and we heard a Turtle Dove and
saw two Beautiful Demoiselles and the nesting Coot. Hazel Leaf-roller Weevils
were mating and a fresh Snout moth lay on a nettle leaf. I also saw a Drinker moth
larva and a Green Tortoise Beetle.
Mill Hill:
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| Adonis Blue, Polyommatus bellargus |
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| worn Burnet Companion, Euclidia glyphica |
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| Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata |
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| possible blackbird nestling |
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| Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi |
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| Hook-streak Grass-veneer, Crambus lathoniellus |
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| Leaf beetles mating, Cryptocephalus species |
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| Leaf beetles mating |
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| Sphecodes bee |
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| Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus |
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| Kestrel has caught a lizard |
Woods Mill Thursday:
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| Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum |
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| Common Blues Damselfly |
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| Common Blues |
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| Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana |
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Coot on nest, Fulica atra and Yellow Water-lilies, Nuphar lutea,
juvenile in foreground |
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| juvenile Coot |
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| Large Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma nymphula |
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| Nettle Weevil, Phyllobius pomaceus |
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| Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis |
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| I think this is a deformed early instar nymph case of a Red-legged Shieldbug, Pentatoma rufipes |
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| Turtle Dove, Streptopelia turtur |
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| Turtle Dove taking off |
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| Yellow Iris, Iris pseudacorus |
Wood Mill Friday:
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| male Beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo |
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| the stream where we saw the first Beautiful Demoiselle |
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| Common Sweep, Psyche casta |
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| Drinker larva, Euthrix potatoria |
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| Green Tortoise Beetle, Cassida viridis |
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| Hazel Leaf-roller Weevils mating, Apoderus coryli |
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| Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus and Yellow Water-lilies |
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| Snout, Hypena proboscidalis |
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| White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis |
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| Wild rose, Rosa species |
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| Yellow Dung Fly, Scatophaga stercoraria |
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| Yellow Water-lilies, Nuphar lutea |
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