WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU TODAY - 2017

Safety in numbers as Kandy says. The Hobby is their only predator and in late Summer change from feeding on Dragonflies to young Swifts (Swallows and Martins) which may not be as fast or agile as the adults.

 

Well, what else would you expect from me!

 

Lovely picture Sheal

 

A Turnstone??????

All the Oystercatchers around here are feeding in mud and their legs are brown!

 

Holton Lee and Lytchett Fields this afternoon. Tidal flooded fields, Poole Harbour
Little Egret.




After that tiddler I think it went off to find something bigger!


Black Tailed Godwit.


Yellow Wagtail, first this year as I missed them passing through in the Spring and they never came close.



At last, decent shots of a Greenshank.

 

Thank you Jiffy.

I'm yet to see one of those Strongy. The only other picture I took yesterday was this....I don't think he liked the look of me, he kept running away.

You're right there @wiseowl. I like your butterfly, I've only seen a few here this year.

Lovely clear shots again Strongy.

 

I found this Common Carder Bumblebee in my kitchen, exhausted and unable to fly after trying to find a way out. I offered a spoonful of sugar water, and it soon revived. Once it stopped feeding I placed it outside near a pot of flowers, and within minutes it was happily buzzing around feeding on the fuchsia flowers.

 

Lots of Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers coming through, though difficult to tell apart, unless you can see the different leg colour or wing length!
Chiffchaff.




One wasn't the same colour and turned out to be a Lesser Whitethroat.

 

This mornings visitor

 

Holton Lee new pools in the rain.


Even in this weather you never know what might turn up!




Common Sandpiper.


White Sika Deer.