Reports of members’ activities and sightings
Come on a short sound walk with Sue Morton who writes:
What could be nicer than strolling along in the dark on a fine summer night listening to crickets? It’s something I never get tired of, although passers-by tend to give us a wide berth when we’re poking around in the undergrowth with the bat detector.
Lindsay Fisher writes about two things:
Spotted on our usual Saturday stroll to Cafe Rouge this morning, a hummingbird hawk moth was also enjoying a sunny breakfast on some valerian flowers in Gloucester Place.
John C. writes:
Getting home quite late from a nocturnal ramble to look (actually to listen for) for crickets with bat detectors, I noticed an unusual plume moth on the inside of the bathroom window.
John C. writes:
As people might know, there was a ‘BioBlitz’ organised by WODC and TVERC at Kilkenny Country Park on Sunday 7 August. Sue and I went along to a couple of the sessions to see what we could ‘blitz’.
Elaine S. writes:
The swifts in my road in North Oxford seem to have gone.
John C writes:
Who, late on a warm summer evening, doesn’t delight in finding a glowing female glowworm? The reaction of someone seeing one for the first time is always ‘Oh, WOW!’
John C writes:
Watering my tomatoes the other evening, I came across this pair of red-legged shield bugs on one of the canes.
Adrian State writes:
I got rather excited today, I was eating my breakfast in the back garden at 6:30am when I spotted this unusual starling amongst the flock of up to 150 starlings I regularly get on my back lawn in Brize Norton.
David Roberts writes:
We have been having a good year in Shilton again this year with our Swifts, up until the last couple of exceptionally hot days. It was a slow start in May and June but things picked up after this with good numbers of 25-30 birds.
Sue Morton writes:
Recently I’ve saved two day-glo green creatures from a messy end on the pavement in Hailey Road. The first was an oak bush-cricket nymph which was wandering around on the pavement under a large lime tree.
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