FLORA AND FAUNA ARDNAVE 10th JUNE 2011

What a glorious day! I'm worried about the lack of butterflies but we still got a great list. Thanks to all contributors. Thought I'd add a photo of a throng of Dung Flies, the larvae of which are food for Chough. Also Star Sedge, of which we saw a lot today.

BIRDS
Chough
Curlew
Meadow Pipit
Ringed Plover
Redshank
Linnet
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Common Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Dove
Pied Wagtail
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Eider Duck
Swallow
Sand Martin
Tufted Duck (Ardnave Loch)
Mallard (Ardnave Loch and Loch Gruinart)
Jackdaw
Rook
Bar-tailed Godwit (Loch Gruinart - flock of five)
Buzzard (soaring over L. Gruinart)
Mute Swan (pair with four cygnets Ardnave Loch)

INSECTS
Dung Flies
Green-veined White
Hemaris tityus - Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
Dung Beetle
Cranefly sp.
Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar

LICHEN
Xanthoria parietina (bright yellow)
Caloplaca crenularia
Lecanora gangaleoides
Physcia adscendens (with xanthoria)

FLORA
Shiny Pondweed
Greater Bird’s-foot Trefoil
Meadow Buttercup
Bulbous Buttercup
English Stonecrop
Dove’s-foot Cranesbill
Water Cress
Water Mint
Brooklime
Forget-me-not sp.
Lady’s Bedstraw
Marsh Marigold
Silverweed
Germander Speedwell
White Clover
Lesser Trefoil
Daisy
Mouse-ear sp.
Early Marsh Orchid
Eyebright
Marsh Thistle
Spear Thistle
Creeping Thistle
Marsh Lousewort
Thrift
Sheep Sorrel
Cuckoo Flower
Lesser Spearwort
Ragged Robin
Sweet Vernal Grass
Common Nettle
Yellow Iris
Common Storksbill
Ribwort Plantain
Bracken
Cat’s-ear sp.
Butterwort
Chalk Milkwort
Thyme-leaved Sandwort
Kidney Vetch
Carnation sedge
Marsh Horsetail
Mouse-eared Hawkweed
Curled Dock
Cotton Grass Multiflora
Hare’s-tail Cottongrass
Star Sedge
Wall Speedwell

MAMMALS
Rabbit
Hare
Atlantic Seal

SNAILS
Helicella sp.