Fine weather with occasional thunderstorms for this period.
The ongoing Butterfly Transects undertaken indicate that, over the last 3 weeks, numbers of Silver Studded Blues have increased compared to the corresponding period last year.
A Tawny Owl reported calling along the west side of Slop Bog.
SIGHTINGS/OBSERVATIONS
Kingfisher Creek: China Mark Moths, Large Red/Small/Azure/Azure Blue Damselflies, Four Spot Chasers/Broad Bodied/Common Hawker/Emperor Dragonflies.
Western Enclosure: Stonechats, Tree Pipits, Green Woodpeckers, Fox, Broad Bodied/Four Spot Dragonflies, Small Red Damselflies.
Beaufoys Bog: Stonechats.
Wild Wood: Buzzards, Chiffchaffs, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
Hazelwood: Siskins, Wrens, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Songthrush, Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Chiffchaff, Blue/Great/Coal/Long Tailed Tits, Buzzard, Magpies, Jays.
Wet Wood: Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Songthrush, Chiffchaff, Jays, Blackcaps, Male and Female Roe Deer.
Nightjar Twirl: Grass Snakes, Azure Blue Damselflies.
Eastern Enclosure: Adder, Tree Pipit, Jay, Green Woodpecker.
Boardwalk: Two Common Lizards, Keeled Skipper/Four Spot Chaser Dragonflies.
Flowering Plants: Common Cudweed, Dwarf Gorse, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Cotton Grass, Bog Asphodel, Cat's Ear, Tormentil, Cinquefoil, Hedge Woundwort, Hedge Bindweed, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Common Vetch, Black Medick, Smooth-sow Thistle, Ragwort, Groundsel, Herb Robert, Marsh Beadstraw, Water Lily, Sheep's Sorrel, Common Chickweed, Wall Speedwell, Herb Bennet, Enchanter's Nightshade, Stinging Nettle, Nipple Wort, Smooth Hawksbeard, Curled Dock.
