Beginning by being dropped at Tesco for a cheap but functional breakfast, I planned to walk back home, some 6 miles. I headed west around Bury Green before heading through Millennium Wood and down brick Kiln Hill via the polo fields. In all 33 species of bird. No real highlight apart from a very light phase common buzzard trying its best to look like a rough legged buzzard. Willow warblers, chiffchaffs, blackcaps were in good numbers but only 2 common whitethroats and 1 garden warbler. The latter posed perfectly for a photo until I had it in focus at which point it disappeared. Only butterfly was orange tip (10+) and no dragons and damsels. A search through a nettle patch was most productive with 7 zpot lsdybird, sloe bug, coreus marginatus, neetle weevil and scorpion fly all being photographed along with several unidentified spiders and hover fliess. A white stork has been reported in the vicinity, but no sign today.
Photos from the top:
Sloe bug
Female scorpion fly
Female orange tip
Male orange tip
Nettle weevil
Juvenile goldfinch
Coreus marginatus
7 spot ladybird
Red tailed bumble bee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common field speedwell (note white bottom petal)
Germander speedwell
Orange tip underwing
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