August catch up

August 13th 2020

Been very quiet this summer around Spennells, have been out for my walkabouts but not really seen anything unusual, we have enjoyed a few days out here and there but a lot of the time it's been too hot to do much, plus I have been up to other things to keep me busy, but late Summer and autumn is almost upon us and fingers crossed for some good wildlife sightings.

 The harvest is ready

Buzzard waiting to see what the Combine might flush out.

River Avon, Eckington bridge

Few wildlife shots below, but as I have already said it's been a quiet year.

Kestrels

Sorry but I still can't upload any photos, will keep trying but until then there won't be any new posts.

Not much happening locally though, between the council and the farmer my favourite spots for insects have been decimated.

The Pool is still oh so quiet, one adult GC Grebe has flown, the young ones are doing well though.

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

Wheatear

Wednesday April 15th

Very nice morning, the wife joined me on this morning's walkabout, again it was very quiet on the pool, saw Skylarks over the cornfield, plenty of small birds about, swallows were perched in a tree preening themselves.

Thursday April 16th

Great walkabout, my first Wheatear of the year down Stanklyn Lane, quite a few swallows about, also a few pheasants, a yellowhammer was about, along the Bromsgrove Road we say a Kestrel perched on the wires, all in all a very pleasant walk.


For some reason I cannot upload any photos to my blog at the moment, for now I am only walking the roads due to my hay fever, so until I can the photos to work this will be my last post for a short while, back in action as soon as I can.