June a quieter birding month than May with Butterflies coming to the fore ...
LARGE SKIPPER
DEW MOTH
SPECKLED WOOD
SMALL HEATH
BLACKCAP Still singing Langdon Cliffs
As is the WREN.
MEADOW PIPIT Harbour Field.
MEADOW PIPIT
ME OLD COCK LINNET- LANGDON HOLE
BEE ORCHID
ADONIS BLUE Lower Tramway Langdon Cliffs
ADONIS
ADONIS
ADONIS UNDERWING
BURNET COMPANION(moth)
SMALL BLUE a small colony on Langdon Cliffs.
SMALL BLUE
YELLOW SHELL (moth).
COSTA PACIFICA about to depart the cruise terminal.
WE ARE SAILING...
LATE SPIDER ORCHIDS Folkestone Downs
LSO
LSO
DAY FLYING MOTH AT THE HOE.??
Last Thursday evening went to Kings Wood Challock with Steve and Pete,eventually at about 9.30 the first churring of a NIGHTJAR was picked up by Petes good ears.Soon after it flew up onto a dead branch low down in an oak tree giving good but fairly distant views.After a short while it flew around the clearing and landed in a dead tree with the light still behind it,giving good silhouette views,and churring loudly.Later it flew around us calling and wing clapping and a second bird was churring as we left to celebrate with a pint of Timothy Taylors in the White Horse at Chilham.
Its good when a plan comes together.
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| NIGHTJAR or GOATSUCKER |
NIGHTJAR |
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| NIGHTJAR CHURRING shame there`s no audio. |
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NIGHTJAR
The morning after Paul Holt picked me up and we went to Blean Woods at Rough Common primarily to see Heath Fritillaries but with the hope of seeing Spotted Flycatcher and Woodpeckers,we saw the former but only heard the latter. |
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| HEATH FRITILLARY |
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HEATH FRITILLARY
From here we headed to South Foreland where CJ had seen a Red Backed Shrike on the lighthouse fence,needless to say it was not there or in the surrounding area. |
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RED ADMIRAL south Foreland.
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| BLACK TAILED GODWIT Oare Marshes. |
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| BTG |
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| BTG |
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| HOBBY near Dans Dock |
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| HOBBY |
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| HOBBY |
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| HOBBY |
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| HOBBY G FORCE |
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| HOBBY Stooping for a dragonfly |
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BLACK TAILED SKIMMER
SMALL SKIPPER -Orange tips to the antennae,first of the season for me. |
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| The Hobby later flew across the East Flood putting up the Godwits. |
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BTGs
Back to Samphire Hoe on a damp drizzly grey morning,brightened by this Bee Orchid along the back track. |
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| BEE ORCHID |
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| THE BLACKEST OF BLACK REDSTARTS |
BLACK REDSTART |
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| SANDWICH TERNS are still passing through. |
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| SANDWICH TERN |
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HERRING GULL with Pipefish
Having finished counting the Common Spotted Orchids( 6711) the sun put in an appearance just enough,despite the stiff breeze, to get a few butterflies flying. |
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| ADONIS BLUE - FEMALE |
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| FEMALE ADONIS |
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| Having got my eye in with the CSO managed to find 10 spikes of BEE ORCHID. |
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| WHITE BEE ORCHID - DDC OFFICES |
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