What’s About – week of 31st May 2016

BIRDS

Male Cuckoo singing at Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (26th)

Yellowhammers and Skylarks singing near the North Bucks Way

Peregrine over Hazeley Wood (29th)

Falco peregrinus

Peregrine over Hazeley Wood, 29th May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

House Sparrows with fledglings, Tattenhoe

Little Egret, Tattenhoe Linear Park (23rd May)

Egretta garzetta

Little Egret, Tattenhoe Linear Park (23rd May)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INSECTS

Lepidoptera

Red Admiral, Tattenhoe Park (29th)

Common Blue butterflies around Tattenhoe Park and Howe Park Wood

Cinnabar Moth, North Bucks Way (29th)

Female Orange Tip, Tattenhoe Park (23rd May)

Anthocharis cardamines

Female Orange Tip, Tattenhoe Park (23rd May)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odonata

Large Red, Azure and Blue-Tailed Damselflies throughout Tattenhoe

Broad-Bodied Chasers, Four-Spotted Chasers and Hairy Dragonflies throughout Tattenhoe

 

MAMMALS

Female Roe Deer near the North Bucks Way (28th)

Muntjac Buck near the North Bucks Way (29th)

 

All sightings and photographs by Harry Appleyard