Scalloped Oak

A new moth for my flat in the shape of a Scalloped Oak which was sat on the kitchen wall this morning. Not particularly rare but it's always nice to see something different.

Scalloped Oak

Fairlawn Road produced a Peregrine which did a leisurely circuit calling all the time - presumably one of the city centre birds on an awayday. Also a few Large White butterflies around and some webs on the vegetation which I assume to be the creation of Nursery Web Spiders. In the Fairfield Road abandoned garden was a small bee that may be Coelioxys species because of its tapering tail. Also a Large Red-tailed Bumblebee and a Sphaerophoria hoverfly.

Peregrine

Sphaerophoria hoverfly

Coelioxys bee

Large Red-tailed Bumblebee

At the top of St Andrews Road a Common Wasp (my first of the year) was trying to carry off the remains of a dead beetle.

Common Wasp