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Pretty sure I had a Small Tortoiseshell on Sunday but it was staying high around some tree tops sunning itself. Possible? Pretty sure it wasn't a Comma but didn't have any decent bins with me.
Brimstones and Red Admirals in my south Hants garden last week w/b 04/03 and my first
Marmalde Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on 8th March along with another local Adder, male this time.
Brimstones and Red Admirals in my south Hants garden last week w/b 04/03 and my first
Marmalde Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on 8th March along with another local Adder, male this time.
Started the year well with 5 Red Admirals in Jan/Feb but nothing for about 3 weeks- been pretty little sunshine.
Today went to Dick Fock's Common for certain bird species & we had at least 10 male Brimstones, 2 Peacock, Comma & 2 Red Admirals. Though they didn't settle probably 2 or 3 Orange Underwings near the birches.
Had a distant butterfly fly through my bins view at aust wharf today. Peacock or red admiral from size and general colour tone. Not really had the sunshine at home yet. Getting impatient 😀
Last Saturday added my first Small Tortoiseshell on a Tree Heather.
Today at Kew Gardens 8 male & a female Brimstone, 2 Peacocks & my first Holly Blue of the season.
Plenty of bees with many Buff-tailed Bumblebees & Hairy-footed Flower Bees (interest to see a female with 2 attendant males visiting Toothwort), a couple of Common Carder Bees & singletons of Andrena clarkella & A. flavipes. hoverflies seen were a couple of Melanostoma sp, Eristalis sp & an Epistrophe eligans.
a single basking Hairy Shieldbug plus several 7-spot Ladybirds.
Brimstone, Red Admiral and Peacock today. Also had what I thought was a Small Tortoiseshell but with the scatter of Large in the last few days (including two day late reporting of one at Frimley, only a couple of miles from home) I'm waiting for a proper view.
Two Peacocks territorial fighting in the S.Hants garden and a single Comma on Weds 20/03 while I sat in the garden having lunch20/03. Also seen plenty more Brimstone this week and my first Bombus lucorum/terrestris worker.
My first Speckled Wood in S. Hants today 24/03 and two each Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pascuorum queens about a month earlier than I'm used to as well as a female Andrea fulva, also a bit early and a few Bombylius major. I guess the Holly Blues will be out soon.
First Orange Tips yesterday. I saw them while it was sunny and very pleasant outside. This was followed three hours later by the mother of all hail storms.