Bidston Moss

Yet again another great day for birding as well as insect searching. To start off the day I managed to run into a Male Sparrow Hawk  approaching the patch which was i nice kick start to the long day ahead as i needed to check the more unwatched areas of the reserve. First off it was a walk along the bridge where I then spotted the 2 Coot adults and the 2 coot Chicks  as well as a calling Reed Warbler  in one off the trees just above the water. When i go on the walks i usually just look at the things which catch my eye and i managed to spot a beautiful Leucozona Lucorum a type of hoverfly   resting on a bramble leaf. Leucozona Lucorum(image by Luke Anderson) Soon after that another little creature caught my eye which was a Dolerus aenus  which is a very common sawfly but interesting never the less as well as another species of sawfly which i am unable to identify as of yet. Dolerus aenus(image by Luke Anderson) Unknown(image by Luke Anderson) For a...

23/4/17 To start of the day it was a walk up to Bidston Moss my joint patch With Elliot Montieth. The very first thing which caught my eye was a pair of Green Finches as i walked up the bridge to get to the main part of the Moss where i had also spotted 2 Adult coots with 2 Chicks  overall adding up to 5 coots and 5 chicks  throughout the day. Coot with Chicks While walking around the main lake and the path leading towards it came up with 8 Specled Wood, 1 holly blue (first for this year) , 10 orange tip, 1 Brimstone, 1 peacock, 1 Cabbage White and only 1 comma butterfly . Male Orange tip Specled Wood Holly Blue Peacock Whilst i reached the lake i found and heard around 9 Chiffchaff and 5 Black caps which appeared to be all male. In the reed bed besides the main lake it was full of warblers which there appeared to be about 2 Reed and 2 Sedge warblers  but possibly may of been just Reed. Also I was quite suprised to see a male House Sparrow as ...