Home and Away: Mallorca - 3 May 25

Day 11.

Carrer Can Vauma Wildlife Corridor

It was back to the Wildlife Corridor Here, to have a more thorough look as to what we missed yesterday.

Main highlight was a Great Crested Grebe to add to my Mallorca list.

Other highlights were 3 Swallowtail Butterflies and several new plants to identify later.

Birds Recorded:

1 Great Crested Grebe

2 Cormorants

1 Cattle Egret

Mallard

1 Common Sandpiper

Yellow-legged Gull

Audouin's Gull

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Swift

Hoopoe (heard)

6 Nightingale

Blackbird

Cetti's Warbler

Zitting Cisticola

Sardinian Warbler

House Sparrow

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Serin

A Great Crested Grebe in Es Llac Gran here.

A Cormorant sat on a small island in Es Llac Gran here.

A Common Sandpiper on the bank of Es Llac Gran here.

A Sardinian Warbler.

A Nightingale singing along this...........

.........this stretch of track here. In the back ground is a another Nightingale singing and a Hoopoe.

Amphibians Recorded:
Marsh Frogs

Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
Red-veined Darter

A female Red-veined Darter

Butterflies Recorded:
3 Swallowtail (Papilio machaon)

Southern Small White (Pieris mannii)

Southern Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria aegeria)

Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra balearica) - Sub-species

Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)

One of three Swallowtails seen today.

A Cleopatra.

And a Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)

Bees Recorded:
Great Banded Furrow Bee (Halictus scabiosae)

A Great Banded Furrow Bee (Halictus scabiosae) on scabious sp. with a female Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis) below.

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:

Mirror Orchid Wasp (Dasyscolia ciliata)
European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)

This stunning insect is a Mirror Orchid Wasp (Dasyscolia ciliata) and also goes by the name of Scolid Wasp. More on this wasp here.

Hidden in this plant......

............is a wasp nest............

..............belonging to the European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula). And there wasn't just one wasp.........

.............but two. It is unlike this species to nest in amongst................

................... a plant, usually it's in various locations, including shaded areas under roofs etc. More on this wasp here.

Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies

Bugs and Beetles Recorded:

White Spotted Rose Chafer (Oxythyrea funesta)

Yellow-legged Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Oedemera flavipes)

Red-necked Comb-clawed beetle (Heliotaurus ruficollis)

Scarab Beetle (Hoplia dilutipes)

A pair of White Spotted Rose Chafer (Oxythyrea funesta) and two male Yellow-legged Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Oedemera flavipes) below. The latter a new beetle for me and very similar to the Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)

Red-necked Comb-clawed beetles (Heliotaurus ruficollis)

A Scarab Beetle (Hoplia dilutipes)

Plants:

Bermuda Buttercup (Oxalis pre-capri)

Castor Bean (Ricinus communis)

Sea Lavender (limonium sinuatum)

Mediterranean Linseed (Bellardia trixago)

This is a Bermuda Buttercup (Oxalis pre-capri) and goes by several other names such as African Wood-Sorrel, Bermuda Sorrel, Buttercup Oxalis, Cape Sorrel, English Weed, Goat’s-foot, Sourgrass, Soursob and Soursop. The name buttercup is a misnomer as it is actually a sorrel and not related to buttercups at all. More on this plant here.

This is Castor Bean (Ricinus communis) and is native to the Mediterranean region, including Mallorca. It is a fast-growing shrub producing seeds which are poisonous. More on this plant here.