Your day's wildlife

[Asa Post]

iNaturalist suggests that the mystery fly is a Mottled Thistle Fly (Xyphosia miliaria).
Body length 5-8mm, wingspan 15-18mm, lives in meadows with thistles, hedgerows and woodland edge, fairly common and distributed evenly throughout Britain, usually seen between May and September.

But the Yellow Berberis fruit fly Rhagoletis meigenii has the correct wing pattern. Body length 8-10mm, usually seen July and August.

 

[Dave 123]

A little wander around the South West Coast Path this afternoon

 

[BoldonLad]

The 1, 2, 3 of the birds and bees (well, no bees):

1. Foreplay

2. The Act

3. Afterwards

Taken through a window, so, apologies for the reflections.

No wonder there are so many pigeons around

 

[Tail End Charlie]

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A little wander around the South West Coast Path this afternoon

Right at the risk of making me look foolish (in my defence I am a novice but am willing to learn), without resorting to Google
1. Comma butterfly
2. Red Admiral butterfly
3. Peacock butterfly
4. Meadow Brown butterfly
5. Long Tailed Tit
6. Jersey Tiger Moth
7, 8, 9. Gatekeeper butterfly
10. Comma

Marks out of ten? (I often get Gatekeepers and meadow browns mixed up).

 

[Asa Post]

Right at the risk of making me look foolish (in my defence I am a novice but am willing to learn), without resorting to Google
1. Comma butterfly
2. Red Admiral butterfly
3. Peacock butterfly
4. Meadow Brown butterfly
5. Long Tailed Tit
6. Jersey Tiger Moth
7, 8, 9. Gatekeeper butterfly
10. Comma

I agree with eight of those (which doesn't necessarily mean that you've got eight correct, we could both be wrong). We differ on numbers 6 and 8.

I often get Gatekeepers and meadow browns mixed up

Easily done, especially in real life when the buggers won't land and give you a good view. @Dave 123 spoils us with the quality of his photos.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I agree with eight of those (which doesn't necessarily mean that you've got eight correct, we could both be wrong). We differ on numbers 6 and 8.


Easily done, especially in real life when the buggers won't land and give you a good view. @Dave 123 spoils us with the quality of his photos.

Don't keep me in suspenders then! Wadda you got??

 

[Asa Post]

Don't keep me in suspenders then! Wadda you got??

I thought that you might want to have a go at working them out yourself, first.

If you prefer to rely on me...

Number 6:

Spoiler

Magpie Moth Abraxas grossulariata

Number 8:

Spoiler

Wall Brown Lasiommata megera

 

[Dave 123]

I was being lazy by not naming them. I apologise.

 

[Dave 123]

A holly blue laying eggs

 

[slowmotion]

Fortunately there was some water between us.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Talking of bears...

 

[matticus]

Talking of bears...
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Careful - it might be a Drop Bear! https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2021/04/drop-bears-target-tourists-study-says/

 

[Dave 123]

Dark bush cricket

 

[Dave 123]

Went and sat on a rock at Warren Point this evening.
Cirl Bunting, wall brown butterfly, peregrine, kestrel, gannet, masses of swifts, a pod of common porpoise and a minke whale!

 

[Dave 123]

Cirl Bunting