Two Hobbies performed really well mid morning for over half a hour catching insects and displaying to each other . Unfortunately I only had my Butterfly and insect lens with me so had to work hard to get my images. Also present of note was a Tawny Owl being mobbed by finches and corvids , and four Common Whitethroat.
Butterflies 🦋
Brimstone
Small Tortoiseshell
Peacock
Orange-tip
Green-veined White
Two Swift over the dam end of the lake . Four Whitethroat singing south end , also 8 x Garden Warbler , 1 x Common Sandpiper, 1 x Oystercatcher and single drake Mandarin. Still no Spotted Flycatcher yet.
Butterflies 🦋
Orange-tip
Green-veined White
Small Tortoiseshell
Peacock
Comma
It seems to be our best year ever for Garden Warbler , with at least 12 singing males . Obviously many more unaccounted for being such a large area. These 12 birds recorded at both north and south ends. So whatever birds are along both sides are unrecorded.
Hobby over north end today at 11-30 .
Butterflies 🦋
Orange-tip x 8
Peacock x 6
Green Veined White x 1 (first this year).
If anyone visits Rudyard in the next few days we are missing two of our spring migrants at present Spotted Flycatcher and Swift. Both are imminent so please drop me a text if you come across them . Or anything else you see for that matter.
Cheers Steve.
We must have had a fall of Garden Warber overnight as we have gone from just two yesterday , to six singing males at the north end and four at the south end. Also at the south end we have gone from a single Whitethroat yesterday , to three singing males this morning . All other stuff is as past few days nothing changed.
Butterflies 🦋
5 x Orange-tip
