JULY HIGH FLIERS

Went to Ashford one day last week to have a look at the Eagle Owl,found it easily enough,but it was asleep  half hidden and high up so just a record shot:-

Ashford town centre has changed a lot since I worked there forty years ago but the church is still there and the bowling green where I remember winning a trophy of some sort is still intact,and amazingly my old office is still there unchanged apparently.

ASHFORD CHURCH.
From Ashford travelled down the A28 to Canterbury and after lunch to Oare,there were good numbers of black tailed godwits,avocets and lapwings, forty plus golden plovers,four dunlin,about ten ruff,two whimbrel, and a single curlew sandpiper on view.

BLACK TAILED GODWIT

AVOCET

BLACK T GODWIT with multiple colour rings

MALE COMMON DARTER(Ham Street woods)

FEMALE COMMON DARTER(HS woods)

Langdon cliffs on Sunday,first visit for a while and my first Essex Skippers of the year made the note book,not many birds to write home about though.

ESSEX SKIPPER

Now thats what you call a tongue!

BARLEY for next years beer? nearly ready for harvest.

DUKE of KENT  Dovers current lifeboat on Sunday morning exercise.

SPITFIRE Fly pasts are a regular sight now.

Monday walked down into the Warren from Capel where 16 butterfly species were seen including second broods of common blue,dingy skipper,brown argus and speckled wood.

COMMON BLUE

DINGY SKIPPER

BROWN ARGUS

FOLKESTONE WARREN

SPECKLED WOOD

No sign of the GRAYLING unfortunately.

The BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL is well worth a visit at Capel Le Ferne.

A few moths to finish with

POPLAR HAWK MOTH

ROSY FOOTMAN

ORANGE SWIFT.