What's Buzzing or Flying near you today.... 2014

Wow!!! Armandii!!!

 

Saw my 1st two swifts of the year , feeding over the River
Not as many House Martins where I live ? as last year.

 

Walk round Morden Bog in Wareham Forest this morning,


not a lot of activity considering the time of year but two Cuckoos were calling although I only found one and just managed silhouetted pics.




The back of (I think), a Hobby.


Meadow Pipit with a mouthful.


Lots of Sundew starting to grow again.


Small Copper.


Green Tiger Beetle.

 

looked like cuckoo to me 2nd photo down

** just re read it you said cuckoo

 

I've fallen in love....
with the Green Tiger Beetle,
Jenny

 

you woudnt if sitting on your bed "HELLO "

 

But isn't it a most fabulous green Spruce? I would love a room all that colour; walls, velvet drapes, damask satin cushions..... and a matt, slightly deeper shade on the paintwork. And a nice unvarnished oak floor,
Jenny

 

yes amazing Jen looks like a cartoon beetle and to think in this Country , heath land is rich in wildlife but can look so baron unless you look closer.

 

My first bee pic of the year

 

@ARMANDII @Zigs @HsuH @Lolimac @Jenny namaste
Well bug fiends this is what I have had back from "Bug Life Natural History Museum , I haven't gone through the old post so others may have named it already ?

have a look at the link

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I am fairly sure this is Esperia sulphurella http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=448 which is a micro moth (meaning it is a primitive moth) that flies during the day and the catterpillars feed on rotting wood. It is fairly common and widespread and like the hundreds of species of small moths mostly un-noticed. I suspect the photo shows a mating pair.


Armandii photo below

 

@Spruce see HsuH #511

Jenny
I like Armandii's bestest 'cos it looks like gold

 

well spotted @HsuH

At least @ARMANDII can sleep easy

Spruce

 

I think I can sleep easy as well now since I kept on wondering what else Armandii's could be.
Thanks for confiming its name.



Now some photos of our resident blackbirds. In the past 2 months we've been rearranging our back garden, dug out and moved quite a few plants. In the process of doing this we found a large quantity of vine weevils, over 1000 of them. I may not happy to see them, birds are, and I certainly cheered the birds on went they came to eat or take them to their babies.








while the male is looking after babies, the female does some sunbathing


then the male resting on top of a tree, bird-eye-viewing its territory