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12/05/21-Lakeside and home

I took the first three pictures in this photoset today of a nice sky scene in another day that had a few and landscapes on my lunch time walk to Lakeside. With the sun out it was pretty warm, and patches of grass appears to be rising promisingly to herald the hope of late spring into summer and the assurance of the dizzy days of peak butterfly season. Indeed I did see a few white butterflies around Lakeside, but it was maybe the flowers that en masse continued to provide the delight of the bright little things of nature on the walk. I took the fourth and fifth pictures in this photoset of two of the yellow shining stars of the walk, buttercup and cowslips respectively both helping to take over the landscape in a yellow and multi coloured carpet lately. The buttercup one of my stars of recent weeks had a spider on it today which was great to see one of my stars of the year I think. I also liked taking in the lovely little forget-me-not I believe field forget-me-not the sixth picture in this photoset shows this in the area I know as Marbled White meadow that I noticed on Monday this is an adorable little flower a general family of flowers I have loved learning the past year or so. At this area I got a nice sharp view of a couple of bright Greenfinches which was great and I enjoyed seeing lots of House Sparrows right in the corner I know as Kestrel corner south of the allotments as always here very busy birds.

As I stepped out of the entrance by the ditch here and inspected another fine patch of dandelion and daisies I was thrilled to see a butterfly and I made out it was a Painted Lady! I liked watching it very briefly getting a binocular view of it but it didn’t stay put too long and rather vanished whilst I was trying for a picture of it. Nearer to the home I saw a Painted Lady on the green too potentially the same one but you never know. This was only my second earliest ever sighting of a Painted Lady in a year the first coming three days ago Farlington Marshes. A butterfly which had its once a decade mass boom in this country two years ago seem to be about in numbers a lot this spring judging by social media and of course they are having a spring mass emergence at least which is a fantastic thing to happen as with more and sunnier patches of the day and warmer ones my butterfly season locally is raising its head nicely after a slight lull. It was great to take in its orange and exotic colours on the walk and I was happy to see it. I took the seventh picture in this photoset of a view in this area.

At home as I worked afterwards there was another chapter in a quite harrowing for some I think story of young birds visiting the garden with following on from the Magpie pinning to the ground and killing a young Starling last week when I first noticed juvenile Starlings visiting the garden on the Thursday I’ve seen and photographed them some many more times since. We had a couple more killed at least I think since but the Magpie doesn’t always carry the bird away so we had seen some young Starling bodies there one minute and gone the next. Something I jokingly and I don’t even know why it was one of the silly things I can say speculated about something that came true to an extent when I noticed the Jackdaw in the eighth picture in this photoset on the roof of the garages with a deceased young Starling. It was attempting to drag it but not really succeeding. However if this one was killed in the garden instead of elsewhere locally the Jackdaw clearly dragged it or picked it up and flew. This was fascinating tooth and claw of nature moment, I really am intrigued to know why they are carrying out this behaviour and how long it may last. It felt interesting to add a new suspect to our observations. I took the final two pictures in this photoset of a Goldfinch and view from my room looking down onto the back garden.

I hope you all had a nice day.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: Painted Lady, Small White, Black-headed Gull, Jackdaw, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, House Sparrow, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon and Collared Dove at home, fly and spider.