Sightings Diary
July 2012
Common Blue Damselfly - Avalon Marsh
Coleton Fishacre Area - South Devon
08.07.12 - 20 degrees, sun/light cloud, slight wind, 10am to 4pm
Birds - Yellowhammers, Stonechats, Skylarks, Chiffchaffs, Linnets, Whitethroat, Gannets, Wrens, Swifts, Swallows, House Martins, Crows, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Cormorants, Shags, Buzzards, Kestrels, Oystercatchers, Chaffinches.
Yellowhammer
Linnet
Wild Flowers - Green Alkanet, Common Mallow, Yarrow, Meadow Buttercups, Bramble Flower, Bedstraw, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Alexanders, Cat's-ear, White and Red Clover, Black Medic and Spotted Medic, Hogweed, Creeping Thistle, Slender Thistle, Musk Thistle, Hedge Woundwort, Spear Thistle, Groundsel, Bush Vetch, Smooth Sow-thistle, Scarlet Pimpernel, Common Vetch, Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil, Common Bird's-foot-trefoil, Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea, Red Campion, Herb Robert, Ribwort Plantain, Tufted Vetch, Elder Flower, Selfheal, Mouse-ear, Oxeye Daisy, Germander Speedwell, Toadflax, Honeysuckle, Wild Carrot, Sheep's-bit, Bell Heather, Betony, Pennywort, Centaury, Thrift, Dog-rose, Young Sloes, Pink Purslane, Wood Avens, Daisies, Cow Parsley, Hemlock, Mugwort, Commopn Sorrel, Redshank, Lesser Stitchwort, Sea Campion, English Stonecrop, Milkwort, Broad-leaved Willowherb, Rosebay Willowherb, Fennel, Foxglove.
Toadflax
Pink Purslane
Other - Marbled White Butterfly, Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Small White, Dark Green Fritillary, Red Admiral, Large White, Atlantic Seal, Six-spot Burnet Moths.
Marbled White
Red Admiral
Six-spot Burnet
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Twitter Group Meet - RSPB Greylake and Avalon Marshes - Somerset
14.07.12 - 17 degrees, sun/light cloud/showers, slight wind, 10am to 6pm
Thank you to all in this great group, another wonderful day with like minded people :-)
Catharine, James, Andrew (great organizing), Phil (great guiding), Tiff, Gaina, Louise and Louise's Dad, Gill and David, Jane, Simon (great guiding) and Richard (whose knowledge known's no bounds)
Brown Hawker
Sedge Warbler
Dragonfly Laval Skin
Common Valerian
Feeding Male Black-tailed Skimmer
Distant Hobby
08.07.12 - 20 degrees, sun/light cloud, slight wind, 10am to 4pm
Birds - Yellowhammers, Stonechats, Skylarks, Chiffchaffs, Linnets, Whitethroat, Gannets, Wrens, Swifts, Swallows, House Martins, Crows, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Cormorants, Shags, Buzzards, Kestrels, Oystercatchers, Chaffinches.
Yellowhammer
Linnet
Wild Flowers - Green Alkanet, Common Mallow, Yarrow, Meadow Buttercups, Bramble Flower, Bedstraw, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Alexanders, Cat's-ear, White and Red Clover, Black Medic and Spotted Medic, Hogweed, Creeping Thistle, Slender Thistle, Musk Thistle, Hedge Woundwort, Spear Thistle, Groundsel, Bush Vetch, Smooth Sow-thistle, Scarlet Pimpernel, Common Vetch, Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil, Common Bird's-foot-trefoil, Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea, Red Campion, Herb Robert, Ribwort Plantain, Tufted Vetch, Elder Flower, Selfheal, Mouse-ear, Oxeye Daisy, Germander Speedwell, Toadflax, Honeysuckle, Wild Carrot, Sheep's-bit, Bell Heather, Betony, Pennywort, Centaury, Thrift, Dog-rose, Young Sloes, Pink Purslane, Wood Avens, Daisies, Cow Parsley, Hemlock, Mugwort, Commopn Sorrel, Redshank, Lesser Stitchwort, Sea Campion, English Stonecrop, Milkwort, Broad-leaved Willowherb, Rosebay Willowherb, Fennel, Foxglove.
Toadflax
Pink Purslane
Other - Marbled White Butterfly, Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Small White, Dark Green Fritillary, Red Admiral, Large White, Atlantic Seal, Six-spot Burnet Moths.
Marbled White
Red Admiral
Six-spot Burnet
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Twitter Group Meet - RSPB Greylake and Avalon Marshes - Somerset
14.07.12 - 17 degrees, sun/light cloud/showers, slight wind, 10am to 6pm
Thank you to all in this great group, another wonderful day with like minded people :-)
Catharine, James, Andrew (great organizing), Phil (great guiding), Tiff, Gaina, Louise and Louise's Dad, Gill and David, Jane, Simon (great guiding) and Richard (whose knowledge known's no bounds)
Brown Hawker
Sedge Warbler
Dragonfly Laval Skin
Common Valerian
Feeding Male Black-tailed Skimmer
Distant Hobby