Tuesday 15 May 2012

Narroways

A sunny morning on Narroways brought out my first Common Blue butterfly of the year along with a couple of Speckled Woods. Also nearby was a Large Red Damselfly, a Yellow-legged Mining Bee, a Marmalade Hoverfly, a Picture-winged Fly, a Tenthredo sawfly, two Adela reaumurella micro-moths, a Common Carder Bee and several Oedemera beetles.

Large Red Damselfly
Tenthredo sawfly
Yellow-legged Mining Bee
Adela reaumurella

Picture-winged Fly
Not much in the way of birds on Narroways other than a calling Bullfinch, a Dunnock, a Chiffchaff and a few Long-tailed Tits.  A Great Tit was gleaning insects from the brickwork of the tunnel at the brook.

At Fairlawn Road there was a Large Red-tailed Bumblebee and a larva of a Dark Bush Cricket.

Dark Bush Cricket larva
The only birds of note at St Andrews Park were a Mistle Thrush and a Starling.

Mistle Thrush
Two Blue Tit nests were noted today - one in a crack in the brickwork of the Malt House and another in the wooden verandah of a house in Leopold Road.

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