YETI Resurrection

So you are all thinking that we got bored, fed up of posting, became overawed by the 3,000 species target and crumbled under the pressure. Well, not quite, I was just briefly lost in the ecological wilderness. May is an exceptionally busy time to be an ecologist, so I have had to put the blog on the back-burner, but myself and the rest of the team have still be clocking up species for the cause behind the scenes. I will try to highlight some of Mays additions to the list over the next couple of posts and try to stay on track with what the team find during June.

A Soprano Pipistrelle bat, roosting in a crevice on a building. Soprano pipistrelle and common pipistrelle were only recognised as different species as early as 1992. 

Male 3 spined stickleback top and male 9 spined stickleback bottom, the Yeti fish list is surprisingly progressing quite well without having to do to much pond dipping just yet (but watch the space).  

Helophilus pendulus a rather attractive hoverfly associated with ponds, a regular garden pond visitor.  

Corn bunting have declined considerably but there still seems to be good numbers on the Wolds. 

Hobby, one of the latest migrant birds to arrive back at their breeding grounds, we just need honey buzzard, turtle dove and nightjar of the late common migrants. 

Female Dytiscus marginalis a frequently encountered species so far in 2013. 

Common pipistrelle in a building, common pipistrelles are extremely well adapted to urban environments, this tiny roost in a door frame contained two bats. 

Male common frog, purely because we don't have any common frog photos yet. 

One of my photographic targets for 2013 (watch the space) a rather crude photograph of a water vole

Pisaura mirabilis the nursery web spider, a species common found within ruderal vegetation stands

Plenty more great crested newts throughout May, to keep my newt fix going. 

The moors are now full of breeding waders like this curlew.

Great crested grebes are showing well across the recording area in a range of waterbodies.

A Male Roe deer coming into its summer coat.

Kleptoparasitism between a common tern and black headed gull and presumably either a roach, rudd or dace in the terns beak. 

Plenty of Marsh harrier movement across the region, this one was shot from the back garden. 

Little Gull

Bullhead as well as greyling, brown trout, rainbow trout, minnow, the two stickleback (mentioned above), roach, rudd, dace and perch make up the freshwater fish list so far. 

There certainly seems to be a short supply of butterflies so far this year, hopefully we will see a good breeding season and recovery. Peacock. 

Sedge warbler

Lesser Whitethroat