June is generally a quiet month out at Lollingdon. Our resident birds and summer visitors are busy rearing young and any mammals are difficult to locate in the high crops.
Insects appear in numbers this time of year but as it is farmland and not managed environmentally the diversity is not there unfortunately.
Anyhow, 2 Kestrel were hunting the hill today and 2 Raven flew south east over the hill and a few Swift Feeding over the area and a Hobby seen flying towards Aston.
The adult Black-headed Gull still around and foraging in the Millennium field area most mornings.
Dragonflies: Banded Demoiselle, Azure Damselfly and Emperor Dragonfly.
Butterflies: Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Brimstone, Large White, Small White, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Speckled Wood, Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Ringlet and Small Heath.
Moths: Silver-Y and Cinnabar. And a Five-spot Burnet in a Cholsey garden. Per Alan Baker.
Yellowhammer
Banded Demoiselle
Corn Bunting
Small White
Meadow Brown
Also a new moth for Cholsey recorded recently. A Hornet Clearwing. Have requested permission to post a photo on Cholsey Wildlife and credit the finder but no response as yet and apparently the county recorder for moths in Berks, Bucks and Oxon is interested in this record as it is a scarce species.
The photo is of one from last July in Wallingford. Courtesy Alan Dawson.
And another new moth, a Yarrow Plume caught by Tony Rayner last week and following on from one in Aston Tirrold before that. Per VG.
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