Camberley Natural History Society

Dear All

Another round-up of sightings, some wild and some not so wild!

 First off is Chris Rose maintaining her participation:

 Greetings from Devon!!  (Wed 16th July)

Came down yesterday and as it’s been a sunny day we went looking for butterflies.  Was really lucky to see these two High Brown Fritillary and White Letter Hairstreak.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Also sending two bee photos, not too clear I’m afraid perhaps Bernard can ID them.

Photos coming separately and in two emails Chris 

Hija,  Thank goodness the wind has dropped....so that the garden can recover.

But we had a lovely afternoon with other members of CNHS in your garden, thank you. So great to chat!!         Chris (24^th July)

Next another photograph and an ID question from Roger Hoyle:

Hi Mike,     Here is a picture of a wasp in my garden.  It may be just a common wasp, but it seemed to look a bit different to me and have more black than usual.  I'm told it's visiting a ceratostigmata, otherwise known as plumbago.

Best wishes,        Roger

 I have asked Bernard for his thoughts on the species and he believes it is probably a Bee Wolf.

 Next, a couple of messages from Mary Robins from her home in Dorset:

Dear Mike and Jenny, Thank you for the lovely selection of photos.  I hear the garden visit went well, sorry I did not make it, the thought of travelling among all the traffic on that busy weekend defeated me.  It Is very quiet here on the butterfly front, I am quite worried about them this year in general, but on the plus side the flowers are better than I have ever seen them.    With best regards,    Mary

 Dear Mike and Jenny,  I went yesterday with no hope at all to look for Chalkhill blues.  A very small site on Portland has been good in the past.  I am delighted to say that there were plenty there, such a moving sight I almost had tears in my eyes.  But still very few in my garden and around here despite the best ever plant growth.

I won’t make it to the do in Joan’s garden at the end of the month, another really busy weekend traffic wise.     Mary

On Wednesday Jenny and I went for a wander over Earlswood Park, the nature area behind Waitrose in Bagshot. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and the meadow was/is covered in wild flowers and had an abundance of insect life, se we took a few photos:

Then on Friday Jenny and I spent the day at the WWT Centre in Arundel, lots of birds of course but other wildlife to see and photograph, the following Green Veined White Butterfly and an assembly of Bees at the Bee Hotel there:

Then some from me, a White Fronted Goose but regret not sure of the duck species. The single youngster is a Moorhen:

That’s all for now, thank you for the messages of appreciation. Please keep looking and let us know what you are seeing.

Don’t forget the web site:  https://www.camberleynaturalhistorysociety.org.uk/

Regards to All,

Mike and Jenny