What’s About – week of May 4th 2016

BIRDS

  • Pair of Common Terns at Furzton Lake (28th April)
  • Garden Warblers in Howe Park Wood, Water Spinney and Tattenhoe Park
  • Common and Lesser Whitethroats singing in and around Tattenhoe
  • Reed Warbler singing by the Howe Park Wood education centre (2nd May)
  • Two Hobbys hunting in Tattenhoe Park (2nd May)
  • Swifts, Swallows and Martins at Furzton Lake
  • Female Ring-Necked Parakeet in Tattenhoe Park (1st May)
  • Wood Warbler Linford Lakes NR (Peter Garner)

MAMMALS

  • Muntjac in Howe Park Wood and College Wood
  • Muntjac tracks in Hollingbury Wood 3rd May (Steve Brady)
  • Roe tracks in Tattenhoe Park
  • Water Shrew in Tattenhoe Park (1st May)
  • Bank Voles in Shenley Wood (28th April)

INSECTS
Apidae

  • Male and female Nomada ferruginata, (parasitic bees) in Coombs Community Woodland on 23 April by Peter Garner

Lepidoptera

  • Orange Tip butterflies along the North Bucks Way and Howe Park Wood
  • Male Orange Tip Blakelands (Steve Brady)
  • Green-Veined White butterflies in Tattenhoe Park and Howe Park Wood

Hymenoptera

  • Tawny Mining Bee, Tattenhoe Linear Park

Odonata

  • Large Red Damselflies in Tattenhoe Park

(All sightings by Harry Appleyard unless otherwise advised)

Ring-Necked Parakeet by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe Park 1 May 2016

Ring-Necked Parakeet by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe Park 1 May 2016

Wood Warbler by Peter Garner, Linford Lakes NR, 2 May 2016

Wood Warbler by Peter Garner, Linford Lakes NR, 2 May 2016

Bank Vole by Harry Appleyard, Shenley Wood 28 April 2016

Bank Vole by Harry Appleyard, Shenley Wood 28 April 2016

Female Parasitic bee, Nomada ferruginata, by Peter Garner, Thornborough and Coomb Community Woodlands, 2 May 2016

Female Parasitic bee, Nomada ferruginata, by Peter Garner, Thornborough and Coomb Community Woodlands, 2 May 2016

Male Parasitic bee, Nomada ferruginata, by Peter Garner, Thornborough and Coomb Community Woodlands, 2 May 2016

Male Parasitic bee, Nomada ferruginata, by Peter Garner, Thornborough and Coomb Community Woodlands, 2 May 2016

Green-Veined White by Harry Appleyard, Howe Park Wood 2 May 2016

Green-Veined White by Harry Appleyard, Howe Park Wood 2 May 2016