The other day I took Monty for a walk from Hartlake Bridge West upriver along the North Bank of The River Medway, which looks very peaceful at this time of year:
which doesn't stop Monty having a swim in it!
The fields beside the river have just been harvested, and the wheat straw baled up for straw:
The farm, owned by the Teacher family, has quite a few corners devoted to wildlife, and the hover-flies, such as this male Sphaerophoria scripta (note the head-down position this species often adopts)
and this Eristalis species benefit accordingly:
This however really is a solitary bee, Andrena andricus! (maybe!)
while this is another Eristalis hover-fly, possibly Eristalis horticola
The butterflies also do well, such as this Brown Argus, Aricia agestis, a member of the Blues family, the Lycaenidae:
and this very tattered Meadow brown, Maniola jurtina, a member of the Browns, the Satyridae, which has obviously "lived well".
Bumblebees are also busy, such as this worker Red-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius,
and present, as always, are the Tachinid flies:
which doesn't stop Monty having a swim in it!
The fields beside the river have just been harvested, and the wheat straw baled up for straw:
The farm, owned by the Teacher family, has quite a few corners devoted to wildlife, and the hover-flies, such as this male Sphaerophoria scripta (note the head-down position this species often adopts)
and this Eristalis species benefit accordingly:
This however really is a solitary bee, Andrena andricus! (maybe!)
while this is another Eristalis hover-fly, possibly Eristalis horticola
The butterflies also do well, such as this Brown Argus, Aricia agestis, a member of the Blues family, the Lycaenidae:
and this very tattered Meadow brown, Maniola jurtina, a member of the Browns, the Satyridae, which has obviously "lived well".
Bumblebees are also busy, such as this worker Red-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius,
and present, as always, are the Tachinid flies:
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