Jesus College Live Wildlife

Long-tailed t**s in the woods.

ECLIPSE
There is a partial eclipse of the Sun on August 12, when at maximum the Moon will take a 92% bite out of the Sun. For Cambridge, the eclipse begins at 18:16 BST, is a maximum at 19:12 and ends shortly before sunset at 20:05. Do not look directly at the Sun as you will damage your eyes. You can project the image of the Sun onto a white card using binoculars or a small telescope. You can also see the eclipse by observing the shape cast by gaps between tree leaves. These act as a pinhole camera and you should see the shape change from circular at the start of the eclipse to a crescent at its maximum.
Jonathan Shanklin, Cambridge Natural History Society.

Beautiful autumn colours. Some people think that the Speckled wood butterfly is brown and boring but I think they can be beautiful.

Flocks of small birds seem to be eating the Horse-chestnut leaf miner larvae. Long-tails, Great, Blue and Coal t**s were all in one Horse chestnut tree today and getting something from the leaves. The larvae are of tiny golden/cream moths and they develop between the leaf surfaces of Horse chestnut leaves. There were also hundreds of the moths on a chestnut by the pond today.

Gareth just found the world's most photogenic blackbird!

A Beewolf being a beewolf. Collecting a honeybee on the North Court meadow path. with video.

Sarah was cycling in this morning when she spotted these two Muntjac crossing Morgan Avenue.

Two dragonflies today; a Ruddy darter by Jesus Ditch and a Migrant hawker in Garden Court.