Monday 16 August 2021

Carlton Marsh

Todays highlights included 3 Little Egrets, a family of 5 Whitethroats, Green Woodpecker, 5 LBB Gulls, Cetti's Warbler, Greenfinch, Great Spot Woodpecker, juv Buzzard, Kestrel and Sparrowhawk (L & A Corrall/D. Standish/K. Bannister/CG).

Butterflies this afternoon included 
10 Small Copper (southern Meadow) + 6 on the old railway embankment, 2 Painted Lady, 5 Red Admiral, 27 Peacock, 4 Comma, 36 Meadow Brown, 46 Gatekeeper, 12 Speckled Wood, a very late Large Skipper, 13 Small Skipper, 4 Common Blue, 17 Large White and 56 unidentified White species. 
Also 2 Southern Hawker dragonflies (Chris Parkin).

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