22nd May The unusually hot weather continues, lots of
bumble bees around the garden including this large queen red-tailed on
the cirsium.
The starling nest box was quiet, had fledged on the 21st
after an incubation period of 12 days and 21 days to fledge. Good to see
them back in the garden 3 chicks and the two parents.
Also the moorhens
started to bring into the garden their chicks, picking up spilt seed
and pieces from the fatballs after the finches, tits and starlings have
fed.
A walk on Sunday 24th came close to a roe deer buck enjoying
buttercups.
After lunch had a call to say there was a red-necked
phalarope at Wilstone Reservoir, an unusual bird. A wader, smaller than a
blackbird, winters in the Arabian Sea far from land. Breeds in the far
north on wet marshes on mountainsides above the tree line and it's the
male that incubates and raises the young.
Back home a large white
butterfly on the sweet rocket.
26th another hot day and a morning walk
along the Misbourne to Shardeloes Lake passing the 18th century country
house there.
Lots of people but also good numbers of common blue
damselflies singles and pairs.
Also found one blue-tailed damselfly. Stewart.
Images Copyright : Stewart Dennis.
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