Wednesday 8 June 2011

Sevenoaks Nature Reserve on Tuesday Afternoon

Mandy and I arrived back from Menorca on Monday afternoon and both had Tuesday booked off, so we played 9 holes of Golf in the morning, had a nice pub lunch at the golf club and then went to Sevenoaks Nature Reserve and met up with Denis.

We had a quite good list of birds as now follows:

STARLING
CHAFFINCH
BLACKBIRD
CANADA GOOSE
GREYLAG GOOSE
LAPWING
SAND MARTINS
COOTS
GREAT CRESTED GREBE
MOORHEN
MUTE SWAN
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER (X3)
PIED WAGTAIL
MALLARD
ROBIN
HERRING GULL
BLUE TIT
GREAT TIT
CARRION CROW
CHIFCHAFF
JAY
WOOD PIGEON
MAGPIE
BLACKCAP (MALE) A GOOD SPOT BY DENIS

 Bumble Bee gathering necter

1) (cannot find in Collins British Wildflower Guide) 

 Foxglove

Harlequin Ladybird Larvae
 Azure Damselfly ?

 Red Campion

 My first ever Slow Worm

 Bramble Flower

 Harlequin Ladybird

 If you click on picture you will see a Male Blackcap in the middle.

3) Cannot find this one either



6 comments:

  1. Phil and Mandy ,
    Re. your ? shots ,
    1. Looks like Columbine / Aquilegia vulgaris , most probably a garden escape , as is 3. In the garden , they come in many colours .
    2. Is the larva of the Harlequin Ladybird .
    Hawthorn ? looks more like the Bramble flower that you photographed the BumbleBees on .

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  2. Thanks Greenie, much appreciated

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  3. Good to see you out there again Phil, keep at it mate, there's lots to learn :-)

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  4. Hope you had a good holiday. Lovely shots here.

    You (and Greenie) have cleared up a mystery for me. I found the most strange little creature on a gate post recently but only managed one quick photo as people were waiting to go through the gate. The photo was too blurred to publish but I now know it was a Harlequin Ladybird larvae. I am so pleased to have cleared that up as it has been intriguing me, a very odd looking little thing I thought.

    Nice to see the Slow Worm.

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  5. Its very nice on my path that I came across pictures of nature and thats too slow worm. I was inn search of this in the internet from the past 3 days.

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  6. 3 looks a bit like a violet.

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