Steady drizzle for the first hour dampened any optimism that Dave might also catch up with the Brown Hairstreak seen on Friday. It looked like being birds or nothing.
The morning had its moments. The rain stopped but it became quite breezy, so we were quite pleased to locate a Willow Warbler among a small party of Chiffchaffs, Common Whitethroats and Lesser Whitethroats. Unfortunately getting a shot of it proved beyond me.
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| Common Whitethroat |
Our highlight was still a warbler, when Dave got me onto a Garden Warbler in the bushes by the old Kingfisher Pool. It has been a good year for this species at Morton Bagot, with at least one singing for a week in spring. Seeing the species after the end of May has been almost impossible. I had seen one in August in 15 years before today. Unfortunately we lost it in the hedge shortly afterwards, so no photo.
The flash pool produced 11 Teal, four Green Sandpipers and a Little Egret.
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| Size illusion: This is the Little Egret |
Walking back we started to see a few butterflies and dragonflies as the sun threatened to appear. These included Brown Argus, Common Blue, Holly Blue, and Small Copper. But the highlight was a Magpie Moth, a species I still haven't recorded in my garden trap.
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| Magpie moth |
I think this is my second for the site, but they are quite common in Warwickshire.
Had my first Magpie Moth in the garden on Friday night, so perhaps not as easy as you might imagine 👍
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