Re: millerd
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:00 pm
On both the last couple of days, after the trips out I had quick walks around my local patch - I try not to neglect it! There was nothing spectacular, but the first local Small Heaths were out.
Today, I went straight from work a whole quarter of a mile to Bedfont Lakes Country Park. It was very warm and muggy at five o'clock, and I didn't see a great deal in terms of numbers, though there were perhaps a dozen Common Blues and four or five Brown Argus, a couple of Small Heaths, several Brimstones and a Peacock. By the time I left at half six, the blues were starting to settle down, and as often seems to happen on very warm evenings, they were mostly going from flight to repose without an interim basking phase. One female luckily was an exception. Dave
Commas and Peacocks amazingly hang on in there, and even though it was pretty late in the day, I still saw Brimstones. Inevitably, I came across roosting Orange Tips - a male on Saturday and a female yesterday. One marked difference between the days was that on Sunday a new round of Speckled Woods had appeared. There were all three common white species, and a few Holly Blues around their favourite holly tree bedecked with ivy.Today, I went straight from work a whole quarter of a mile to Bedfont Lakes Country Park. It was very warm and muggy at five o'clock, and I didn't see a great deal in terms of numbers, though there were perhaps a dozen Common Blues and four or five Brown Argus, a couple of Small Heaths, several Brimstones and a Peacock. By the time I left at half six, the blues were starting to settle down, and as often seems to happen on very warm evenings, they were mostly going from flight to repose without an interim basking phase. One female luckily was an exception. Dave