Sunday, 22 May 2016

Off Patch: Purple Toothwort

Purple Toothwort, Norwich, 16th May 2016

Hairy Dragonfly

Hairy Dragonfly, female, Holme NWT, 22nd May 2016

Not the first to be seen this year, but the most obliging ! The first was on the wing on 14th May.

Four Sunday Moths

Green Longhorn, Adela rufimitrella, Holme NWT, 22nd May 2016

Yellow-triangle/New Oak Slender Caloptilia alchimiella/robustella, Holme NOA, 22nd May 2016

Vetch Piercer, Grapholita jungiella, Holme NWT, 22nd May 2016

Cocksfoot Moth, Glyphipterix simpliciella, Baker's Carr, 22nd May 2016

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Cliffs, Wednesday 18th May 2016

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Counting period: 05:05 - 07:05
Weather: wind South2, cloud-cover 8/8, temperature 10 ℃
Observers: Andy Brown

	S	N		S	N
Little Egret	5	-	Tree Pipit	1	-
Swift	1356	-	Linnet	50	-
Barn Swallow	582	-	redpoll sp.	1	-
House Martin	293	-	Goldfinch	7	-
flava wagtail sp.	5	-	Eurasian Siskin	10	-

Totals: 2310 individuals, 10 species, 2:00 hours

Bold = Remarkable observation (scarce or rare species or large number)

Off Patch: a male Snow Bunting at Choseley

Snow Bunting, Choseley, 17th May 2016

Some May butterflies (plus a spider and a fly)

Brown Argus at Holme Dunes

Small Copper at Holme Dunes

Common Blue at Holme Dunes

Holly Blue in Hunstanton Community Orchard

Green-veined White in Hunstanton Community Orchard

A Wolf Spider (Pardosa amentata?) Male on female? Hunstanton Community Orchard

A Bee-fly (Bombylius major?) Ringstead Downs

May flowers selection

Photos of a few of the plants in flower on our patch (and one off patch).

There are over 1200 flower-heads of Horseshoe Vetch at Ringstead Downs.
Good news for the Chalkhill Blue butterflies?

The earliest flowers of Long-stalked Crane's-bill at Ringstead Downs

A flower-head of Hound's-tongue at Ringstead Downs

One of a few Sea Campion plants in flower at Holme Dunes

The Mouse-ear-hawkweeds have suddenly flowered en masse on the dunes

And one plant off patch at Burnham Norton. Mousetail, a member of the Buttercup family, is flowering well in the corral and field gateway. It likes bare earth where its hard fruits can be trampled by the feet of cattle. It is a vulnerable and nationally declining species. It also used to grow in arable where its fruits were probably trampled by the heavy working horses.

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