Dave's Weekly Round-up...

Thanks again to Dave Helliar for his weekly round-up of birds and insects from the local Chard area. Oystercatcher on his local patch is always a scarce bird and a good find together with some butterflies and other insects that are battling through the currently unseasonally cool weather. Wader movement has been slow but steady with several Common and Green Sandpipers and a single Black-tailed Godwit moving through the area too.

Oystercatcher, scarce inland and always good to see.
D. Helliar

Great Crested Grebe brood at Chard Res LNR: D. Helliar

Black-tailed Godwit: D. Helliar

Common Blue: D. Helliar

Common Blue and Small Skipper: D. Helliar

Dingy Skipper, 2nd Brood: D. Helliar

Small Copper: D. Helliar

Painted Lady: D. Helliar

Wall Brown: D. Helliar

Capsid Bug Sp.: D. Helliar

Bombus campestris, one of the 'cuckoo' species: D. Helliar

Tabanus autumnalis: D. Helliar