Tuesday 19 May 2020

Lockdown (Easing) Cuckoo & Others

Over the past week I've been to several local bird reserves, where it has been possible to adhere to social distancing.  I checked the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust website and discovered the car park at Messingham was open, but the hides were closed.  This is such a nice place to go in May, I decided to go there.  On the way back I stopped off at Alkborough. Again, the hide was closed, but the car park and paths were open.   At Messingham yesterday, I was able to get out of the breeze to make 5 birdsong videos.  These are:
1. Reed Warbler and Introduction here
2. Meadow and Garden Warbler here
3. Around the Royal Fern here
4. Garden Warblers and hepatic Cuckoo summary here
5. Male Cuckoo here
The moths shown were almost all taken in the moth trap, which at last is starting to pick up, as the nights get warmer.  
Male Cuckoo
Common Seal aka Harbour Seals - Stone Creek
House Martin
 Wheatear - Stone Creek
 Rudd? - Burstwick
 Female Wheatear - Stone Creek
 ditto
 Yellowhammer - Burstwick
 Red-legged Partridge
 Dunnock - in the garden
 Lesser Whitethroat - Leven
 ditto
 Reed Bunting - Leven
 Male Great Spotted Woodpecker - in the garden
 Damselflies - MSQ
 Damselflies - MSQ
 Bearded Tit - Alkborough
Beetle Species - MSQ
 Blue-tailed Damselfly - MSQ
 Cinnabar - MSQ
 Male Cuckoo - Alkborough
 ditto
ditto
 Cuckoo being mobbed by Meadow Pipit
 ditto
Cuckoo being mobbed by Pied Wagtail 
 Cuckoo being mobbed by Pied Wagtail
 Lily Beetle? MSQ
 Little Egret - Alkborough
 Lizard - pregnant? MSQ
 Lizard
 Lizard
 Meadow Saxifrage - MSQ
 Spoonbills - Alkborough
 ditto
 Pug Species
 Micro Moth species
 Cinnabar 
 ditto
 Heart and Dart
 Micro Moth Species
 Poplar Hawk Moth
 ditto
 Angle Shades
 Spectacled?
 Uncertain
 Micro Moth Species
 Poplar Hawk Moth
 ditto
 Pug Species
 Flame-Shoulder
 Heart and Dart
 Number 80
 Number 80



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