This post is all about yesterday. Another sunny morning saw me heading to the patch to try to see the Wheatear found by Tony the day before yesterday. That is, on Tuesday. This could all get very confusing.
The upshot was that I couldn't find it, although I did get a Morton Bagot year-tick ( I'm still not doing a Morton Bagot year list). A pair of Tufted Ducks were lurking on the dragonfly pools.
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| Tufted Ducks |
I reached the Flash field to find pretty much the same birds as at the weekend; the pair of Avocets, 20 Teal, four Shoveler, four Shelducks, three Black-headed Gulls, three Lapwings, and two Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The most novel wader got up from the Red-backed Shrike field, a Snipe.
At least there were a few butterflies on the wing in response to the warmer weather; a Small Tortoiseshell, and a Peacock being the two that were close enough to identify.
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| Peacock |
Back home I put the moth trap out and caught 30 moths, none of them unexpected species: 11 Common Quakers, 11 Small Quakers, three Clouded Drabs (nfy), two Hebrew Characters (nfy), two Early Greys (nfy), and a Common Plume (nfy).
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