Events

Juvenile Marpissa muscosa – a fairly scarce jumping spider Click for photo

Stag beetle Click for photo

Bats on the wing overnight. Common and Soprano pipistrelle, Brown long-eared, Serotine, Western Barbastelle and an unidentified Myotis species

Wood-boring beetle Rhagium bifasciatum Click for photo

Hoverfly Eristalis pertinax Click for photo and wood-boring beetle Elateroides dermestoides Click for photo

Swifts (four), Buzzards (four, two adults and two juvenile), Maybug, Slow worm (est. 12 inches long) Click for photo, Fox, old male (going grey).

Muntjac deer

Nightingales in full voice, Cuckoo, Blackcap and Garden Warbler heard

Hornet inside the house (and released)

Slowworms, 2, under black plastic sheets