JULY 2020

July is over,lockdown has eased a little more enabling me to return to Samphire Hoe as a volunteer ranger albeit in a reduced capacity for the moment.I have also been to Oare a couple of times and to the Cliffs as well as the local butterfly hotspots.

BONAPARTES GULL at Oare back again for the 7th year.

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-The Bonapates gull is slightly smaller than our own Black Headed Gull,so you can judge how small the Redshank is.

A PRISTINE PEACOCK

WHITE LETTER HAIRSTREAK at Temple Ewell.

CHALKHILL BLUE-The first of the year.

SILVER ORIGIN a brand new cruise ship for the Galapagos Islands heading down cannel.

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CORN BUNTING Langdon Cliffs

YELLOWHAMMER- Langdon Cliffs

MEADOW PIPIT

SKYLARK

SKYLARK

COMET NEOWISE

CHALKHILL BLUE

ESSEX SKIPPER

MARBLED WHITE

MARBLED WHITE

MARBLED WHITE

GATEKEEPER-male

GATEKEEPER- female.

RAVEN must be high in the pecking order with that pecker.

CHALKHILL BLUE on wild carrot.

LESSER YELLOWLEGS an American wader at Oare.

JUVENILE CUCKOO AT OARE

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SMALL BLUE

SMALL BLUES mating at Samphire Hoe

KELVIN HELMHOLTZ WAVE.or 3 GEESE A SWIMMING.

WILLOW WARBLER -LANGDON HOLE

WALL BROWN- male

WALL BROWN

CHALKHILL BLUE

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COMMON HEATH moth.

THE WHEATEARS are returning to Samphire Hoe on their way to Africa.

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LESSER WHITETHROAT playing hard to get.

WALL BROWN female.

RAVEN on the Coastguard radio mast a favourite perch.

RAVEN in the air.

THE  SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER the last of Kents butterflies to appear this one on the very last day of July.

THE LOCAL COMMON BUZZARDS 

THIS ONE MOULTING HEAVILY.

-Thats it for July folks.