Click Beetle, Shield Bug at Gunnersbury Triangle

lick Beetle on goose-grass
Click Beetle, Athous haemorrhoidalis, on goose grass
Coreus marginatus shield bug, distinctive horns between antennae
Coreus marginatus shield bug, distinctive horns between antennae

As well as the handsome insects, a migrating Tree Pipit called from the wood near the Picnic Meadow. These once common birds are now scarce on farmland and have disappeared from London as breeding birds, but still drop in occasionally in spring and autumn migrations, and breed on larger commons such as at Thursley.