Migration at Hunstanton Cliffs

Thursday 7 May 2015

Counting period: 05:15 - 07:15 Weather: wind WSW3, temperature 5 ℃ Observers: Andy Brown S N S N S N Merlin    1    -    Sand Martin    7    -    Rook    1    -    Hobby    2    -    Swallow    278    -    Carrion Crow    1    -    Grey Plover    55    -    House Martin    89    -    Greenfinch    2    -    Woodpigeon    22    -    flava wagtail sp.    47    -    Goldfinch    16    -    Collared Dove    8    -    Grey Wagtail    1    -    Linnet    14    -    Turtle Dove    2    -    alba wagtail sp.    3    -       Swift    101    -    Jackdaw    14    -       Totals: 664 individuals, 19 species, 2:00 hours Bold = Remarkable observation (scarce or rare species or large number)

Migration at Hunstanton Cliffs

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Counting period: 05:20 - 07:20 Weather: wind SW5, cloud-cover 2/8, temperature 8 ℃ Observers: Andy Brown S N S N S N Shelduck    1    -    House Martin    247    -    Carrion Crow    4    -    Whimbrel    1    -    Tree Pipit    2    -    Chaffinch    2    -    Lesser Black-backed Gull    4    -    Meadow Pipit    5    -    Greenfinch    2    -    Woodpigeon    10    -    flava wagtail sp.    184    -    Goldfinch    73    -    Swift    99    -    alba wagtail sp.    5    -    Siskin    7    -    Sand Martin    15    -    Wheatear    1    -    Linnet    56    -    Swallow    756    -    Jackdaw    31    -       Totals: 1505 individuals, 20 species, 2:00 hours Bold = Remarkable observation (scarce or rare species or large number)

Kidney-spot Ladybird Chilocorus renipustulatus - new for the patch

Kidney-spot Ladybird Chilocorus renipustulatus, Baker's Carr, 4th May 2015 

Floundering about.......

Flounder Platichthys flesus, River Hun, 3rd May 2015



....trying to hide itself in mud

Lesser Thorn-tipped Longhorn

What a great looking beetle............

Lesser Thorn-tipped Longhorn, Baker's Carr, 4th May 2015

Adderstongue

This lovely fern is now 'flowering' in the dune slacks.

Adderstongue, Holme NWT, 3rd May 2015

Green Hairstreak

One of several flitting around the reserve today...

A cold Saturday........

produced 6 Barnacle Geese on the grazing marshes (with an aborted northwards foray out to sea) and a Dunlin and Little Ringed Plover amongst the usual species on the pools and a pair of Mediterranean Gulls east over the marshes in the early afternoon. Signs of insect life were few and far between other than in sunny, sheltered areas, where fly diversity is evidently on the increase.

Rhyngia campestris, Holme Marsh, 2nd May 2015

Blue-arsed Fly, Argyra sp., Holme Marsh, 2nd May 2015

Leistus ferrugineus, Holme NWT (pines), 2nd May 2015

A St. Mark's Fly Bibio anglicus, Holme Marsh, 2nd May 2015

A blast from the past: first record of Red-veined Darter on the patch

Red-veined Darter, Sympetrum fonscolombii, Holme NWT, 9th June 2006

Rubbish shot, but worth having here I think.

The Ladybirds of Northwest Norfolk

2-spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata

10-spot ladybird Adalia decempunctata

Kidney-spot Ladybird Chilocorus renipustulatus

Eyed Ladybird (Anatis ocellata)

Cream-spot Ladybird Calvia quattuordecimguttata

 

Coccidula rufa   

7-spot ladybird Coccinella 7-punctata

11-spot Ladybird (Coccinella undecimpunctata)

Pine Ladybird Exochomus quadripustulatus

Orange Ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata)

Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis

 

Cream-streaked Ladybird Harmonia quadripunctata

18-spot Ladybird Myrrha octodecimguttata

14-spot ladybird Propylea 14-punctata

22-spot ladybird Psyllobora 22-punctata

Rhyzobius litura  

            

Rhyzobius lophanthae  

Scymnus auritus              

Scymnus femoralis         

Scymnus frontalis

Scymnus haemorrhoidalis           

Scymnus suturalis           

24-spot ladybird (Subcoccinella 24-punctata)

16-spot ladybird (Tytthaspis 16-punctata)