July 2010

01/07/10 5 singing male yellowhammers around hedgerows
1 pair bullfinches
1 tawny owl calling
Butterflies noted include:- marbled whites, small heaths, ringlets
and meadow browns
Beacon Hill - Lude Farm area

11/07/10 At six o'clock today, delighted to see two green woodpeckers digging I presume ants out of our front garden. One seemed to be on lookout duty but then the other one who had seemed much hungrier suddenly began to feed it and I presume it was mum and baby. After that event, the mum came right upto the front door step whilst junior pottered off to the pavement and began attacking a juicy patch of tarmac! The pavement coating is at least seventeen years old so has many areas where plant have colonised it, hence insects.
As soon as I started breathing again and then got my camera, it would not focus through the double glazing and then a car went by and they flew off.
We have seen solitary birds before, across the road in garden of number 25 which is closer to trees, and escape cover, but today was charming and i thought worth noting. Weather overcast ans still
Recorded by Sue Mahy

18/07/10 Willow beauty Tylers Green

20/07/10 Purple Emporer (Female) Commonwood early afternoon - it was resting on bracken on the edge of the wood.

20/07/10 8 Whitethroat including juveniles Puttenham Farm

29/07/10 4 Small Copper Grange Farm

01/07/10	5 singing male yellowhammers around hedgerows 1 pair bullfinches 1 tawny owl calling Butterflies noted include:- marbled whites, small heaths, ringlets and meadow browns	Beacon Hill - Lude Farm area
11/07/10	At six o'clock today, delighted to see two green woodpeckers digging I presume ants out of our front garden. One seemed to be on lookout duty but then the other one who had seemed much hungrier suddenly began to feed it and I presume it was mum and baby. After that event, the mum came right upto the front door step whilst junior pottered off to the pavement and began attacking a juicy patch of tarmac! The pavement coating is at least seventeen years old so has many areas where plant have colonised it, hence insects. As soon as I started breathing again and then got my camera, it would not focus through the double glazing and then a car went by and they flew off. We have seen solitary birds before, across the road in garden of number 25 which is closer to trees, and escape cover, but today was charming and i thought worth noting. Weather overcast ans still	Recorded by Sue Mahy
18/07/10	Willow beauty	Tylers Green
20/07/10	Purple Emporer (Female)	Commonwood early afternoon - it was resting on bracken on the edge of the wood.
20/07/10	8 Whitethroat including juveniles	Puttenham Farm
29/07/10	4 Small Copper	Grange Farm