There is just time to squeeze in one last post before I escape to the East Africa tomorrow. With a bit of sunshine yesterday there was time to head out for a lower Broadland circuit (passing 30 or so Spoonbills and Glossy Ibis on Breydon on the way through) and it held just long enough to have a walk down the track at Ormesby Little Broad.
The sun was on the usual Bramble clump and it spent some
time fly watching. The Eristalis nemorum
were still holding sway with many E pertinax around the flowers while what
looked like a small Xylota scurried around sap sucking on the leaves. The name Chalcosyrphus nemorum popped into my
head and that is indeed what they were.
They got stroppy with the local Helophilus pendulus and Tropidia scita.
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| Chalcosyrphus nemorum |
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| Chalcosyrphus nemorum |
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| Anasimyia contracta |
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| Anasimyia contracta |
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| Eristalis pertinax |
There were plenty of blue Damselflies once again and two Brown Hawker terrorised the area above the clump while a Willow Emerald was the first of the season for me.
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| Willow Emerald |
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly |
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| Ruddy Darter |
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| Neoscona adianta - quite a pale one |
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| Rutpela maculata |
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| Big leafhopper sp |
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| Golden Wandering Snail |
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| Red Legged Shieldbug |
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| Lagria hirta |
A roving flock contained Goldcrests, Treecreeper, Tits and
squeaky Blackcaps while invisible Common Terns called from the broad.
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| Blackcap |
Back at home there were several dinky little Dichrorampha
vancouverana around the Yarrow and the females looked to be egg laying. The Hop is going mad and I am awaiting moth
mines but it also severed as a warm up spot for a pair of Small Whites and a
rather ragged Comma. The solitary
Whirlygig Beetle is still twirling happily on the pond despite its lack of
buddies.
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| Small Whites |
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| Comma |
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| A Hedgehog in the Wren's garden yesterday evening! |
The trap went on and this morning it felt like it was a
poorer night but I still had 45 species compared to 61 the night before. Even now the number of new species is not
letting up and over the two nights ten new ones arrived. Not all were teeny weeny micros and I had
three Leopards with their curiously long bodies, a silky White Satin and a
sharp Brown Line Bright Eye.
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| Coleophera alcyonipennella |
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| Coleophera alcyonipennella |
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| Coronet - wow |
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| Cydia fagiglandana |
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| Peppered Moth - intermediate form |
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| Leopard Moth |
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| Leopard Moths |
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| Brown Line Bright Eye. |
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| Crambus pascuella |
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| Buff Arches |
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| Platytes alpinella |
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| Platytes alpinella |
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| Crocosmia Lucifer - appeared in the top bed |
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| Yellow Achillea |
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| Majoram |
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| This stunning Glad just appeared! |
Time to get a few more jobs done and the final pack before the journey to Entebbe begins tomorrow.
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