Some welcome free time yesterday afternoon tempted me to get out onto the patch to have an optimistic search for a rogue avian migrant or two. Telegraph Hill, just south of Hinchley Wood, is one of the highest points in the area as the name suggests, so it didn't seem completely unreasonable to expect a Siberian Accentor or at the very least a Ring Ouzel to drop in for a quick refuel before heading onwards into the deepest and darkest depths of upper middle-class Surrey.
Alas, nothing materialised so I resorted to some invertebrate appreciation. The irridescent leaf beetle
Phratora laticolli was feeding in profusion on a small row of aspens at the top of the hill, and it wasn't too hard to find some
Stigmella leaf mines
on various deciduous trees in the hedgerows.
Phratora laticolli
Stigmella plagicolella on Blackthorn
Stigmella ulmivora on Elm
1 comment:
Brilliant photos.
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