Monday, 6 June 2022

Latvia May 2022.......Butterflies and Critters..

 Butterflies...

Continental Swallowtail

Brimstone...

Small White 

Green Veined White

Large White

Orange Tip

Wood White

Peacock

Red Admiral

Painted Lady

Green Hairstreak ..abundant

Small Copper

Sooty Copper 

Grizzled Skipper

Chequered Skipper

Northern Chequered Skipper


Map Butterfly


Small Heath

Small Blue 

Holly Blue

Common Blue

Heath  Fritillary

Bog Fritillary..

Camberwell Beauty (not seen by me)

Moths..

Speckled Yellow , Common Heath , Beautiful Hook Tip , Brown Silver Lines , Bloodvein ,White Ermine , Burnet Campion , Small Yellow Underwing , Common Carpet , White Pinion Spotted ,  Northern Eggar (cat) , Lackey (cat) , Drinker (cat) Scarlet Tiger (cat) , 

Dragonflies

Four Spotted Chaser

Banded Demoseille 

Common Yellow Club tail


Brilliant Emerald  

White Faced Darter sp 

Shieldbugs

Striped , + 2





Mammals

Moose

Wild Boar

Fox 

Badger

Brown Hare 

Beaver 

Red Deer

Roe Deer

Red Squirrel

Racoon Dog 

Pine Martin large male road victim...and Grass Snake video below...











Latvia May 2022


                                                                     Map 
                                                            Common Crane
                                                           Scarlet Rosefinch (cheers GW)

List of Birds...continued ..

Icterine Warbler 

Sedge Warbler 

Blyth's Reed Warbler 

Marsh Warbler 

Eurasian Reed Warbler 

Great Reed Warbler

River Warbler 

Savi's Warbler 

Common Grasshopper-Warbler 

Wood Warbler  

Willow Warbler  

Chiffchaff 

Greenish Warbler 

Long-tailed Tit  

Blackcap 

Garden Warbler 

Barred Warbler ..Another bird of the trip a stunning adult male singing at the fishponds in a ditch next to the local shop...stunner

Lesser Whitethroat.....common singing bir 

Greater Whitethroat 

Goldcrest

Sand Martin 

Barn Swallow 

Common House-Martin 

Eurasian Treecreeper 

Eurasian Wren 

European Starling

Mistle Thrush 

Song Thrush 

Redwing 

Blackbird 

Fieldfare 

Spotted Flycatcher 

European Robin 

Thrush Nightingale ..

Bluethroat... 

Red-breasted Flycatcher 

European Pied Flycatcher 

Common Redstart 

Black Redstart 

Whinchat

Northern Wheatear

Dunnock 

House Sparrow 

Eurasian Tree Sparrow 

Gray Wagtail 

Western Yellow Wagtail 

Citrine Wagtail ....

White Wagtail 

Meadow Pipit 

Tree Pipit 

Common Chaffinch ..large flocks at  Cape Kola in the pines and generally common everywhere

Brambling 

Hawfinch..A common species in Latvia and good numbers were seen at Kolka migrating north a flock of 26 high north was one of the many highlights of the trip. 5 in the garden at Kolka...

Scarlet Rosefinch 

A common bird in Latvia with birds singing there common ' Pleased to meet you call' just about everywhere ,40 + seen on one day at Kolka .Many are the dull female types but occasionally a stunning male will appear singing from the top of a tree or bush ..This one above was at Lake Lubans and was a real stunner. (Pic Gary Waddington)

Eurasian Bullfinch ..Common at Kolka migrating north ,all seemed to be the large Northern types with Trumpet call... 

Common Redpoll (only 1 seen at Cape Kolka)

European Greenfinch , Linnet , Red Crossbill , European Goldfinch , European Serin and  Siskin....generally common throughout 

Reed Bunting  common at Lake Lubans and around the fishponds..

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Red Kites




 Top Withens , 2 Red Kites , 5 Buzzards , 3 Kestrel , 2 SEOs..............

Lapwings











 

Saturday, 21 May 2022

Merlin and Wheatear


 Found these on the moor the other day , Wheatear tail feathers and female Merlin Primary....I flushed the Merlin by accident and then found the feathers on the ground........

Friday, 20 May 2022

Redshanks and Wood Tiger (cat)










 First Juv Stonechats(3) and Redshanks (3) today. Plenty SEO activity and Green Hairstreaks again..So pleased to find a local Wood Tiger caterpillar today been looking for years....

Wednesday, 18 May 2022

                                                    Short eared Owl
                                                        Green Hairstreak
                                                  Various Northern Eggars
                                 Masses of Common Heath on the wing this morning..500 + , Green Hairstreaks 50 + Green Veined White 10 + and Oak Eggar Cats 20 + ..the bottom cat is a Oak Eggar that had been stung by parasitic wasp.....!!!                      
 

Monday, 16 May 2022

Ringstone Little Egret


 

Bingley St Ives

                                                                  Alder Moth
                                                    Least Black Arches
                                                   Broken Barred Carpet
Scorched Wing

Had a trip over to Bingley St Ives to meet the Bradford Moffers over the weekend..Only a few miles from Calderdale and great to see some scarce species which are heading our way....Least Black Arches must be on the way to a Calderdale trap soon and more Scorched Wings for sure. We also had a great catch of 28 Pale Tussocks , Oak Nycteoline , Alder Moth , Barred Hooktip (one dark form) , Broken Barred Carpet ,Water Carpet and 2 White Pinion Spotted.A total of 38 species and great to meet up with the Bradford group..Cheers Mark Pearson for organising...and Ian Haregreaves for the photos..
  
                                                        Excellent night for pale Tussock

 

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Laggs.......



                                                      Oak Eggar
Watched 3 Herons up on the moor today , hunting Greylag Goose young.....found four batches of Vapourer eggs...


                                                           Common Dog Violets