Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Park Lane car park is now permanently closed; and Pumpkin Hill is temporarily closed for road repairs. This made it impossible to get into Burnham Beeches without a massive detour; so I turned back this afternoon and had a walk on Littleworth Common where I saw a buzzard, a chiffchaff, a queen hornet and this tiny but distinctive Scorpion Fly.
An early morning visit to Dorney Common brought four yellow wagtails near the road; the cattle were widely scattered so there could well have been more.
This dragonfly was in the garden a day or two ago. It's probably another Southern Hawker, the thicker body making it a female. She remained on the holly for a good half hour.
The Hummingbird Hawk-moth paid a quick visit to our honeysuckle this morning.// posted by Christine @ 8:23 AM 
