Bawdsey Botany & Bits

Before the mothing, I had a bit of time to wander around the site and noted a few new plants and also noted a few other bits .....

Yellow Horned-poppy

Common Sea-lavender

Sea-kale

Common Cord-grass

Sea Sandwort

These Colletes sp. were massed on flowering grass (not sure which grass, or Colletes sp.!)

Migrant Hawker

Common Lizard

Legless

Seems everything is against me seeing new birds these days. Local Snow Bunts would have been an overdue county tick, and that bloody Greater Legs up in Northumbs is grating a little now. I would really like to see this superb bird but I have had zero chance of taking time out of work this week and face another heavily constrained weekend. Next week is not looking any more likely for a day off either. Arse.

In lieu of doing or seeing anything exciting, and with no new photos to share, I had a quick trawl through the hopelessy archived archives looking for old photos to give a new airing. I found a few, and inadvertently found a new sawfly in the process (one that is very obvious some nine years later with improved online resources).

Blue-tailed Damselfly, Crow Mill Way 26/06/2002

Willow Sawfly (Nematus salicis), Narborough Bog 23/07/2002

Migrant Hawker, Whetstone 01/09/2002

Dingy Skipper, Clipsham Quarry 12/07/2003

Orange-tip, Whetstone 23/05/2004