October 10th – this evening I rescued a lesser yellow underwing moth from a spiders web; it had lost a leg but flew off. I know I should leave pray in webs but this web looked abandoned so thought it was only fair to rescue it.
October 15th – 19:50 a tawny hooted. There is definitely a male and female about, there was definitely both parts of the call together later in the evening 🙂
October 16th – The tawny was calling again 😉
October 17th – The tawny was calling again 🙂
October 18th – Three fallow deer walked across the middle of the field this morning. One stag and two doe. Now I haven’t knowingly seen fallow deer here before so it was a bit of a surprise. I managed to take a rather bad photo through the window (which needs cleaning, the pesky birds have made it dirty!).
This evening 93 gulls were out in the field feeding. A buzzard flew into a nearby tree and then flew off again, another buzzard was in the distance. I had mainly headed out into the field to look at the ditch now it has been finished. I know all the ditches round here have been cleared, and all the vegetation which was in front of them has gone. What I didn’t expect to find was the fence around the edge of the field has also been pulled down and just left where is lays! I have no idea if anyone is going to put it back up but I’m guessing not! Any trees that were dug out have been burnt and now there are charred tree trunks just led on the margin of the field. It looks a bit of a mess!
Tonight I started my ‘heard an owl survey’ at 20:07 – I didn’t hear any in the 20 minutes slot but half an hour later they were calling 🙂
October 22nd – This afternoon there was a European hornet feeding on the bananas that had been left out for the butterflies. It’s the first one I’ve seen, I recorded it via the Asian hornet watch app.
October 23rd – There was a moth discovered in one of the bedrooms so I was called rescue it – a green-brindled crescent.
October 25th – It was a foggy start today with the temperature being 3.5C, winter is starting to be more noticeable.
October 31st – this morning there was a light frost across the field…
