MAY BEGONE

The last few days of May and some rarities have arrived, Rose Coloured Starlings,Red Rumped Swallows,Little Gulls and Great Reed Warbler all at Dungeness except the Swallows.
Also a Spoonbill at Pegwell Bay.
First up some May moths just to show that moths can be beautiful too.

CINNABAR MOTH

 BRIMSTONE

 FLAME SHOULDER

 RED TWIN SPOT CARPET

 BRIGHT LINE BROWN EYE

 ORANGE FOOTMAN

 PRIVET HAWKMOTH

 LIGHT BROCADE

 POPLAR HAWKMOTH

 HERALD

 BARRED HOOK-TIP ?

 BUFF ERMINE

CHINESE CHARACTER

REED WARBLER AT PEGWELL BAY

REED WARBLER

 REED WARBLER

 REED WARBLER

 REED WARBLER

 SPOONBILL PEGWELL BAY

 LITTLE GULL DUNGENESS

 LITTLE GULL

 SANDERLING DUNGENESS

 SANDERLING

 CURLEW SANDPIPER
Twitter called a Red Rumped Swallow at Kingsdown, so I went straight away having missed several birds this year through indecision.Steve Ray was already there and we soon picked out not one but two birds amongst the mainly house martin flock.The light was not good but got a few record shots.

 RED RUMPED SWALLOW

 RRS

 RRS

 RRS

 RRS

 RRS.
Half way through my evening meal,twitter tells me an adult Long Tailed Skua has just passed Hythe heading East,now indecision took over where to go,Samphire Hoe was obvious or St Margarets,I plumped for the Hoe and it was the wrong choice as the traffic lights in town and at the tunnel cost me several minutes enough to miss the bird which was seen at Kingsdown 20 minutes later.


Sunday afternoon at Park Gate Elham

 MONKEY ORCHID

 COMMON BLUES IN COP

 FLY ORCHID

 FLY ORCHID

GREATER  BUTTERFLY ORCHID

 SPECKLED WOOD

 CUCKOO From the ramp at Grove

 CUCKOO

 SKYLARK-two pairs have territory at Samphire Hoe

 ATLANTIC GREY SEAL- SAMPHIRE HOE

 AGS

 COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS - lots on the Hoe this year.

 SPECkLED YELLOW a day flying moth.

 BROWN TAILED MOTH CATERPILLAR

 LACKEY MOTH CAT??

 MOTHER SHIPTON

 MOTHER SHIPTON

 SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHID

 ROSE COLOURED STARLING - DUNGENESS

 RCS

 RCS

 RCS

 RCS
News came through the air waves whilst looking for the starling that a Great Reed Warbler was showing well in front of the Hanson Hide and eventually it did.....

GREAT REED WARBLER

 GRW

 GRW SINGING LOUDLY.

 GRW

 GRW

GRW

 FULMARS AT LANGDON HOLE

 FULMAR PETREL

FULMAR

Last but certainly not least, in the early evening of 31st May, on the cliff edge this PAINTED LADY alighted having just arrived from the continent and may have flown all the way from Morocco,ponder that.