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| | Welcome to our newest member, Penali18 | |  | Posted 26-12-2008 at 10:27 AM by leifus On the 15th the whole family set off for Upper Crockford Bottom in the New Forest. Last time we visited, the sun was nowhere to be seen, but that day we were a lot luckier. We recorded ten different species of Odonata. Common and ruddy darters preferred the heath and bogs to the actual stream, as well as the blue-tailed and emerald damselflies. That may have been because three golden-ringed dragonflies patrolled up and down the stream, catching flies and fighting off other dragonflies. I’ll never... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 26-12-2008 at 10:21 AM by leifus On the 26th I did a round of the Top Field and recorded huge numbers of butterflies and the following day (Dad’s birthday) I found two broad-leaved helleborines on the side of the track in Bentley.
I have left the overview of the Top Field until now because it mainly covered the whole of July and a bit of June and August but it has been a very good year in 2008. It is an amazing haven for butterflies and wildflowers and supports a strong breeding population of skylarks that nest in the long... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 26-12-2008 at 10:20 AM by leifus So, after a long and very busy June, it was on to July (is this ever going to finish?!?) which started with a cuckoo shooting down Yarmley Lane and landing on a fence post while on my paper round and I also counted 19 goat’s-beard flowers opposite the Tythings which was the most so far. Then, on the same day (3/7/08) I discovered three pyramidal orchids in the garden! Last year we only had one and so hopefully the numbers will continue growing until we have a whole meadow full off orchids.... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 26-12-2008 at 10:19 AM by leifus As well as the green tiger beetles, there were a lot of poplar leaf beetles on the young willows (they feed on both willow and poplar) and also a Leptura quadrifasciata which was a black longhorn with four bands of yellow spots.
The main voice of the forest belonged to the chiffchaff, but we heard goldcrests, a cuckoo, a tree pipit, willow warblers and blackcaps also.
Right at the end, we set up a moth trap for overnight to see what we got the next day…
Day Three was also... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 26-12-2008 at 10:18 AM by leifus June had arrived at last and with it came the creeping cinquefoil at the bottom of the drive and another goldfinch on the niger feeder. The swallows in the porch at Church were doing very well – they raised two chicks this year in the first brood but I have forgotten how many overall (woops).
On the 8th we went to Chilbolton in the heat and sun. I managed to find both southern and narrow-leaved marsh orchids and one common spotted orchid. There were lots of southern marsh orchids so I got... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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