Well it's been a wet one, sod's law really, stuck in County Hell all week, weekend comes and it rains ALL WEEKEND!!!!!!
I worked from home on Friday so I had a later start and went ringing with Fish in the Chev reedbeds, we had a decent morning, mostly sedge warbs and a few reed warblers with the odd reed bunt and a willow warbler for interest. We had time to look at the orchids between net rounds, still a few lesser-butterfly orchids there but they were starting to go over. There was a female marsh harrier at chev as well as barn owl, 300 sand martin and 350 starlings.
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Reed Warbler
Lesser-butterfly Orchid
five-spot burnett moth on a mist-net pole
There were some spangly-black caterpillars on nettles by one of the net rides we thought they might be peacock, but weren't sure...Boulmer Birder will no doubt put us right!![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraW4c1rFBB1bHb6jl1TYKUaXrkoCXZCB2Uy-FNwnp3scvyeJQ9JDlJa70xmeoPMMpyrh-uDc6nty2Piso01KZpiX56_ji9lKLmclPxqwpBchYa2lvtETYcsdp5qayQ7BA0xRkq-ZUVNk8/s400/catterpillars_web.jpg)
Ringing at Dru was aborted due to rainy mornings, so boring household chores were the order of the day. I managed a quick visit to Dru this afternoon, a common sand on the Budge fields a welcome year tick, broods of gadwall and mallard were on the main pool and the long-eared owl was hunting, from the Budge screen, the little egret was still about, flying north shortly after we arrived. Offshore 6 manx shearwater flew south.
Off to a works conference in Shropshire this week so news from Dru may be scant.
131 common sandpiper
2 comments:
Well great minds think alike eh! I've got a pic like those caterpillars too...
The catapillars are almost certainly Peacock
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