The Golden-ringed Dragonfly was a pleasant surprise, given the wind, but the same wind caused this battered Small Heath to cling tenaciously to Mark's finger. The top picture is of an unidentified beetle - any ideas? Noticeably not a single mammal today!
Becky
BIRDS
Meadow Pipit (3)
Ringed Plover (1)
Common Gull (50)
Great Black-backed Gull (2)
Herring Gull (4)
Rock Dove (6)
Pied Wagtail (2)
Oystercatcher (16)
Eider Duck (40)
Swallow (4)
Sand Martin (6+)
Linnet (2)
Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
Redpoll (6)
Twite (2)
Wheatear (2)
Raven (6)
Common Sandpiper (2)
Rock Pipit (3)
Chaffinch (6)
Hen Harrier (1 fem.)
Shag (4)
Fulmar (6+)
Razorbill
Red-breasted Merganser (2)
Willow Warbler (1)
Wren (1)
Skylark (1)
INSECTS
Dung Flies
Green-veined White
Small Heath
Small Copper
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
6 spot Burnet moth
Green Tiger Beetle
Bumble Bee sp. (Bombus ?)
Poecilus sp. (bronzey beetle in peat)
LICHEN
Xanthoria parietina (bright yellow)
Caloplaca crenularia (orange dots on rock)
Lecanora gangaleoides (white crustose lichen with black ‘jam tarts’)
Ramalina sp. (grey-green tufty species on stone walls)
Peltigera membranacea (dog lichen in grass)
Lecanora sulphurea (green crustose lichen on stones)
Parmelia saxatilis (leafy lichen on wood or stone)
Cladonia portentosa (Reindeer moss/lichen)
Cladonia fimbriata (cup lichen in peat)
Cladonia floerkeana (matchstick lichen)
Ochrolechia parella (white - ‘fish-eye’ lichen)
Parmotrema chinense ('Powdered Ruffle lichen’)
FLORA
Bird’s-foot Trefoil
Meadow Buttercup
English Stonecrop
Dove’s-foot Cranesbill
Forget-me-not sp.
Heath Bedstraw
Marsh Marigold
Silverweed
White Clover
Daisy
Mouse-ear sp.
Early Marsh Orchid
Eyebright
Marsh Thistle
Spear Thistle
Creeping Thistle
Lousewort
Thrift
Cuckoo Flower
Lesser Spearwort
Ragged Robin
Sweet Vernal Grass
Yellow Iris
Bracken
Cat’s-ear sp.
Butterwort
Milkwort sp.
Cotton Grass Multiflora
Star Sedge
Tormentil
Heath-spotted Orchid
Wild Thyme
Round-leaved Sundew
Heath Speedwell
Heather
Hard Fern
Pennywort
The beetle looks like either Poecilus versicolor or P. cupreus. P. versicolor always has pitch black legs, and P. cupreus legs are usually light coloured. Plus P. versicolor can be slightly smaller, although there is an overlap in size. Not sure which one from the piccie...
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Thanks Crystal. There was no way we could see this little chap's legs but next time I'll try to get a closer look! : )
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