Wednesday 10 August 2016

A cloudy start to the day with a cool feeling wind, but the afternoon brightened up nicely.

The only bird species of any real note was heard in the early hours, - a TAWNY OWL (54), nice to get one on the August list  :-)  A LITTLE OWL was heard calling from the Small Holding this afternoon whilst I was in my garden, but my patch visit this morning was very quiet, nothing to mention of note, except maybe the passage of a few HOUSE MARTINS.


The only photo I took was of this Speckled Wood Butterfly.

Yesterday I had a trip to Sevenoaks family picnic wildlife reserve to photograph some dragonflies. I found a few nice Ruddy Darters.


Ruddy Darter




3 comments:

Pete Woodruff said...

A bit late finding your Wednesday post Warren, about which the excellent Tawny Owl and Ruddy Darter aside, the bit about Sevenoaks (family picnic site strike-through) Wildlife Reserve is my favourite....that's just my sarcastic streak shining through, but I do admire your speaking out when appropriate.

Warren Baker said...

Pete,
The KWT pander more to families than to the wildlife!

Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris said...

Cracking Ruddy Darters Warren. A species which seems to have come and gone from round here unfortunately :-( Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

Cheers

DaveyMan