I-SPY Wildlife - A 6 a Day Challenge

Bird , bee, insect today

A Bird - female pheasant, robin, great northern diver, pied wagtail, chaffinch, song thrush, house sparrow, blackbird, sparrow hawk, dunnock , rook, rock dove, white tailed eagle, chickens, goldfinch, willow warbler, cuckoo, sand marten, snipe, pink footed geese
A Butterfly or Moth (incuding caterpillar, chrysalis and imago) drinker moth caterpillar, micro moth
A Bee or Wasp - black honey bees, white tailed bumblebee, carder bee, a red tail bumblebee (but not good enough view to identify which species of red tail)
A Mollusc - black slug, garden slug, garden snail
An insect or spider . Spider unable to identify. Money spider. Tick, Carabus granulatus, blue bottle, migrant hoverfly. Soldier beetle Cantharis pallida
Another living creature - sheep, slow worm, vole, red deer, fallow deer, tadpole, Labrador, collie , rabbits, cat , a different cat, highland cow.

         

Amazing photos, again, SC. Thanks for sharing your wildlife with us!
I have nothing new to add today.

Amazing photos, again, SC. Thanks for sharing your wildlife with us!
I have nothing new to add today.

Just lucky if I’m honest. While trying to identify the beetle for our daily challenge. I realised it might not be one of the common species. So I went back up to the long grass outside my polytunnel to see if I could find him again to get more photos for identification. As I was looking for it I heard the pink footed geese flying overhead. So quickly got a photo. Then opened my Merlin app to find out what species of geese they were. After 2 minutes of recording bird calls ( because if you’ve got the app open you might as well see what else is about) . I looked down to find the little soldier beetle making his way back up a blade of grass. So mostly lucky with a little bit of patience.

I hope the lead goose knew where they were going, otherwise everyone else is in for a shock. Shade of the conga at a party ending up in the ladies loo. My dad actually did that

Just bird & spider today
A Bird - female pheasant, robin, great northern diver, pied wagtail, chaffinch, song thrush, house sparrow, blackbird, sparrow hawk, dunnock , rook, rock dove, white tailed eagle, chickens, goldfinch, willow warbler, cuckoo, sand marten, snipe, pink footed geese, Siskin
A Butterfly or Moth (incuding caterpillar, chrysalis and imago) drinker moth caterpillar, micro moth
A Bee or Wasp - black honey bees, white tailed bumblebee, carder bee, a red tail bumblebee (but not good enough view to identify which species of red tail)
A Mollusc - black slug, garden slug, garden snail
An insect or spider . Spider unable to identify. Money spider. Tick, Carabus granulatus, blue bottle, migrant hoverfly. Soldier beetle Cantharis pallida, garden spider
Another living creature - sheep, slow worm, vole, red deer, fallow deer, tadpole, Labrador, collie , rabbits, cat , a different cat, highland cow.

I did see my first butterfly of the year. But I was one end of the garden it was the other and heading towards next door quickly. So no chance of identification.