10th August 2018
We went on a family visit to
Natural Surroundings for lunch and a walk around the grounds. The cafe
allowed us to show Rose some birds (and a squirrel) up close, as a large
family of Blue Tits, some Great Tits and a Coal Tit took turns on the
nearest feeders.
Walking down to the river we stopped
beside a large Alder and identified about 10-15 different species just
by checking the leaves that were around head height. Walking back I
noticed an interesting-looking hoverfly on Common Fleabane. Roger Morris
identified it for me as Xanthandrus comtus (there is only one photo of
that species in the WildGuide and it was marked differently to my
specimen). There was another new species for me back in the herb garden
where I found a Pied Smudge moth (Ypsolopha sequella) sheltering from the
rain. We went into the cabin to watch the Harvest Mice whilst the rain
got heavier, before deciding that it had set in and heading for home.
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