Thursday, 2 September 2010
Nature Watch
July was very warm and dry but a change took place in August becoming warm, windy and wet.
SIGHTINGS
Plants in flower: Heather/Ling, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Black Nightshade, Dwarf Gorse.
Butterflies/Moths: Common Blue, Holly Blue, Large Whites, Green veined White, Gatekeepers, Speckled Wood, Painted Lady, Comma, Large Skippers, Meadow Browns, Ringlets, Brimstone, Peacock, Silver-studded Blue, Grayling, Fox Moth.
Insects: Field Grasshoppers, Meadow Grasshoppers, Velvet Ant, Bees.
Dragonfly/Damselfly: Common Darters, Black Darter, Keeled Skimmers, Small Red Damselflies.
Birds: Robins, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Dunnocks, Wrens, Chaffinches, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Siskins, Great Spotted/Green Woodpeckers, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Magpies, Black Headed Gulls, Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, Tawny Owl, Stonechats, Willow Warblers.
Fungi: Egghead Mottlegill Paneolus Semiovatus, Snowy Inkcap Coprinus Niveus.
Several species of birds have been moving across the Reserve on the start of their migration including Willow Warblers and Swifts. One bird, the smallest in Britain, which has not been reported during this Summer is the Goldcrest. It is thought that many did not survive the very cold spell earlier this year. A roe deer fawn has been seen early in the morning on the East side of the Reserve. A healthy number of Silver-studded Blues were recorded on the weekly butterfly transects but numbers of other butterfly species, dragonflies and damselflies are down. The first of the Autumn fungi is now appearing taking advantage of the warm, wet conditions.
Recordings by C Wilcox, G Dunkling, A Bryant, R Chapman, D Lock
SIGHTINGS
Plants in flower: Heather/Ling, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Black Nightshade, Dwarf Gorse.
Butterflies/Moths: Common Blue, Holly Blue, Large Whites, Green veined White, Gatekeepers, Speckled Wood, Painted Lady, Comma, Large Skippers, Meadow Browns, Ringlets, Brimstone, Peacock, Silver-studded Blue, Grayling, Fox Moth.
Insects: Field Grasshoppers, Meadow Grasshoppers, Velvet Ant, Bees.
Dragonfly/Damselfly: Common Darters, Black Darter, Keeled Skimmers, Small Red Damselflies.
Birds: Robins, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Dunnocks, Wrens, Chaffinches, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Siskins, Great Spotted/Green Woodpeckers, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Magpies, Black Headed Gulls, Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, Tawny Owl, Stonechats, Willow Warblers.
Fungi: Egghead Mottlegill Paneolus Semiovatus, Snowy Inkcap Coprinus Niveus.
Several species of birds have been moving across the Reserve on the start of their migration including Willow Warblers and Swifts. One bird, the smallest in Britain, which has not been reported during this Summer is the Goldcrest. It is thought that many did not survive the very cold spell earlier this year. A roe deer fawn has been seen early in the morning on the East side of the Reserve. A healthy number of Silver-studded Blues were recorded on the weekly butterfly transects but numbers of other butterfly species, dragonflies and damselflies are down. The first of the Autumn fungi is now appearing taking advantage of the warm, wet conditions.
Recordings by C Wilcox, G Dunkling, A Bryant, R Chapman, D Lock
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