Birds and insects on a sunny day in October.

It was a lovely calm and sunny late October morning so I walked up to Stanley Pool to see what birds were on the lake.

A view of the upper end of Stanley Pool with a freshly ploughed and rotovated field on the far side.

   4 Juvenile Mute Swans
 c4 Great Crested Grebes plus 2 juveniles
   3 Grey Herons
c25 Mallards
20-30 Carrion Crows feeding on muddy bank - they had probably been attracted to the pool by a recently, though previously unploughed field. There were more crows feeding in the field.
c20 Jackdaws - as above.
 c7 Woodpigeons
c25 Black Headed Gulls
   3 Coots
   7 Cormorants
c50 Canada Geese flew in during the time I was there.
    1 Magpie
       Blue Tits and Great Tits
       Robins
   1  Jay
plus two or more dragonflies and other insects, notably feeding on Ivy flowers.

A vespid wasp, greenbottle and other flies feeding on Ivy flowers growing on garden wall at Stanley village.



Mesembrina meridiana basking on a rusty gate near Stanley Pool.