"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday, 26 July 2014

Saturday's haul - well some of it !

A dawn 'til dusk day, starting with a White Satin in my garden moth trap and ending with an adult Long-tailed Skua in the harbour. In between was a sizeable haul of new species as Steve Lane, Steve Falk, Robert and I searched the dunes and Ragged Marsh for invertebrates. Other birds included seven Arctic Skuas high above the harbour, 2 Greenshank and 2 Whimbrel west and 2 Yellow Wagtails east.  Robert found us a smart Clouded Yellow in the dunes, a Dark Green Fritillary zipped past and our first Grayling of the year was at Gore Point. 

White Satin, Hunstanton, 26th July 2014


Dead hoverflies, apparently infected with a fungus which has altered their behaviour, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014



Motherwort, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Southern Wainscot, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Swallow Prominent, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Water Mint, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Tree Lichen Beauty, Holme NOA, 26th July 2014


Pine cone flat bug, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Stripe-winged Grasshopper, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Tachina grossa, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Kirby's Sand Wasp, Podalonia affinis Holme Dunes 26th July 2014


Erisatlinus aeneus, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014

Volucella inanis, Holme Dunes 26th July 2014 (photo Gary Hibberd)


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