Wildlife sightings - May 2006

04.5.06

Orange tip butterfly
Brimstone butterfly

07.5.06

Baby rabbit (found dead on path, minus eyes and choice bits: possibly killed by a hawk)

08.5.06

Red admiral butterfly
Peacock butterfly

10.5.06

Brimstone butterfly
Red admiral butterflies
Blackcap (singing in sycamore tree – very beautiful: not unlike nightingale but less power)

23.5.06

Large barn owl

25.5.06

Two big furry caterpillars

27.5.06

Song thrush (singing in big ash tree by noticeboard)
Chaffinch?
Heavy scent of hawthorn blossom

30.5.06

Male blackbird (singing on coppice gate)
7-spot ladybird (on nettles)
Buzzard (circling field over north east boundary hedge)