Monday 5 August 2013

Wintersett 05.08.13

18°C and a very wet start.  Rain stopped 09.45, westerly wind.   Very quiet.
Anglers CP:  Goldeneye 1♀ and Teal 1.  
Wintersett Res: Great Crested Grebe broods  1 + 3 and 1 CHres..  Common Tern 4 + 1 ACP.  Grasshopper Warbler 1 reeling on the west bank.  A dead Water Shrew was on the west bank path.
Cold Hiendley Res: Gadwall 15 + 4 ACP
Also seen:  Purple Hairstreak 1 Haw Park wood.  There were also many bees and insects in a torpid state.
Here's one for Oxycera.  Please can you  ID?  I'm not sure if it's a bee or a wasp or a hoverfly



Is it a bee/wasp/hoverfly?    It's on Burdock


 

3 comments:

Carlos said...

Looks like a bumble sp that has lost its hair.

oxycera said...

I saw something similar at old moor last week and came to the same conclusion as Carlos.

ASmith said...

Thank you for your comments.