Please refer to the Introduction Page to understand the context behind the monthly photographs.
Birds
Little Egret
Butterflies
Common Blue Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly
Dragonflies
Dragonflies have an average life of two to three weeks with a maximum of six.
Common Darter Male
Common Darter Female
Southern Hawker Male
Ruddy Darter (Male)
Fungi
One of my favourite Fungi starting to grow and hopefully will cover at least 50% of this log end similar to last Octobers posting.
Hericium coralloides
Hericium coralloides - Close Up
Oak Bracket (Pseudoinonotus dryadeus)
King Alfred Cakes (Daldinia concentriica)
Galls
Willow Leaf Sawfly (Pontania proxima) Gall
Insects
Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus pratensis)
Seven-Spot Ladybird
Mildew
Courgette Plant Mildew (Golovinomyces cucurbitacearum or orontii)
Close-Up
Moths
Box-tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis)
Small Purple-Gold Mint Moth (Pyrausta aurata)
Spiders
House spider (Tegenaria probably domestica)
House spider (Tegenaria probably domestica)
Lichen
Lichen are only recorded at each new OS Grid location (hover for Grid Ref). They are then entered on the British Lichen Society spreadsheet and submitted for their Warwickshire VC38 Lichen database and Lichen mapping.
To give a sense of scale all the lichen close up photographs below use the scale of the photographed scale below which is in millimeters i.e. 1mm to 3mm..
Scale bar in millimeters
Non-Churchyard Lichen
Parmotrema perlatum
Punctelia subrudecta
Melanohalea elegantula
Melanohalea elegantula - Close Up
Ones that escaped the camera lens this month
a) Cormorant.