Tuesday 30 June 2015

June round up

Geoff has been doing a great job keeping the sight updated so this is just filling the gaps with sightings when I have been on my own.
Garden Warbler; as he mentioned I found a bird on the canal towpath which called and flew to Compton rough, according to hollam young stay with female for a few weeks after fledging so was this a lone male?
Goldcrest; A family party with 3 young was in the hole (sw bfied corner) in the middle of the month and also a separate juvenile in the paddocks, likely to be on second brood now. (are the recent juv blackcaps also 2nd brood??)
Water Vole also mid month a vole swam across and disappeared almost beneath my feet at spill weir.
Large skipper and ringlet butterflies on the field.
A superb male broad bodied chaser on Saturday morning at the wetland suggests that the distant dragonfly 3 days earlier was a female of that species.

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