Hoverflies in the sunshine

Friday May 29th and Saturday 30th May. 2020

Not seeing much about insect wide, so much quieter than last year, must be due to all the heat we have had recently, few walkabouts the past few days though looking for mainly hoverflies.

Female Dasysyrphus tricinctus, a first for me.

female Helophilus pendulus

male Eupeodes sp

male Eristalis horticola

Sphaerophoria scripta

female Helophilus pendulus

Insect time

Tuesday 26th May 2020

Getting harder to spot the birds again due to the trees now all being in leaf.

Got another bridge camera now for my macro, Canon sx60HS to which I attach a Raynox 250 adaptor, taking a bit of getting used to and have to say I prefer the SX50, but as that gave up the ghost I had to get something else and with the 60 being the next model up I thought I would give it a whirl, for birds it is great although hard to focus at times, for macro I will tell you after I have had a few more outings, so far okay.

Just a walk about 100 metres from home today.

Marmalade Hoverfly

Common blue damselfly

Longhorn Beetle - Clytus arietis

Eupeodes

Catherton Common

Wednesday May 20th

Catherton Common

Such a lovely day, saw birds below, also a Red Kite and a cuckoo was calling most of the time we were there, shall be visiting again next week, it's such a peaceful place.

View toward Titterstone.

Meadow Pipit

Linnet

Stonechat

more walkabouts

Few photos from the past month.

With lockdown lifted a bit hopefully I will get out a bit more again.

Whitethroat at Spennells

Fox with Rabbit, Spennells

Small Copper, Spennells

Sunrise at Stone Pool

Whitethroat ast Hartlebury Common