The first week of lockdown took some time getting used to, although working remotely from home certainly kept me busy during office hours and more.
Again this week I carried my camera with the macro lens, as last week was pretty enjoyable - although this week, not much new to photograph.
I saw this group/flock of little invertebrates in a small pool of water outside my apartment
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| Diptera sp. |
As with last week, the Blue butterflies were pretty abundant; Asian Grass Blues
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| Asian Grass Blue (Zizeeria karsandra) |
along with Mediterranean Pierrot's are the most common
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| Female Mediterranean Pierrot (Tarucus rosaceus) |
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| Male Mediterranean Pierrot (Tarucus rosaceus) |
I found European Bee-wolf
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| European Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) |
and plenty Harlequin Ground Bugs
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| Harlequin Ground Bug (Lygaeus equestris linnaeus) |
This week, some Ants were investigating the Web I found last week
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| Web contents under attack |
On the bird front, a few Willow Warblers were still about
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| Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) |
But what was interesting is that I found a small colony (5 birds) of breeding Golden-backed Weavers in a big dead tree in Abu Hassania. There were at least 6 nests and the males, although not in breeding plumage were actively displaying and calling. I will now monitor there progress over the rest of lockdown and the coming weeks/months
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| Male Golden-backed Weaver (Ploceus jacksoni) with freshly built nest |
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| Female Golden-backed Weaver (Ploceus jacksoni) |
This week I covered 58km as I got used to setting a better pace
Here an Abu Hassania beach abstract
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| Abu Hassania beach |
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