Westborough Wildlife Watch, June 09
July 6th, 2009
Hi All and welcome to the June wildlife watch. This has been an exciting month with some unusual sightings as well as the ongoing presence of previously reported creatures, most noticibly the large contingent of ladybirds which seem to be everywhere at the moment. Anyway on to new sightings, reports have reached me of the visit on a couple of occasions of a small Deer, it has yet to be confirmed whether this is a fawn or an adult Muntjac (as at least one sighting was initially suspected to be a large Fox my moneys’ on a Muntjac) in any event the presence of Deer of any species may not always be welcome on site because of the damage they can do. The same is also true of our next visitor the humble Rabbit. The rabbit is not a true British species but was believed to have been introduced by the Romans as a food source and have become so widespread as to have become a pest no matter how cute they are , and talking of cute pests Grey squirrels have been seen (I would have been surprised if they hadn’t) but perhaps they will be kept in check by the Buzzard that I have seen once or twice in the last week or so along with reports of a very welcome preditory bird the Thrush. The report I received was that the bird in question was a Mistlethrush but I am just delighted to see any species of Thrush on site (for obvious reasons). Finally this month was the sighting of a mating pair of Stag beetles (thanks to David Bird for the photo) this species is now confined to Central & Southern England but has little protection at present therefore if you should encounter the larve please let them thrive.
That about wraps it up for this month please keep the reports coming and I’ll post them as soon as possible. 
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