I have missed more good birds this month by being in the right place at the wrong time,but more of that later.It started off well enough with the flock[3] of Collared Pratincoles at Dungeness and finally caught up with the long staying Glossy Ibis on the ARC pit,but after that the month was largely a tale of woe.
Now a few pics of the Collared Pratincles, yet another visitor from southern Europe this year.
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A long weekend in Norfolk coincided with a wet dull spell so didn`t get to see much at all.
After the rain stopped on Saturday went for a short walk at West Somerton where we found a couple of Barn Owls hunting over some rough ground,one was a very pale bird and stayed distant, but this one came reasonably close, it caught a vole and was flying back to its nest when a Kestrel came out of nowhere and attacked it and forced the owl to the ground,and stole the vole.
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HORSEY MILL
RED LEGGED PARTRIDGE
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RED LEGGED PARTRIDGE
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LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL- the gull of choice in Great Yarmouth
GRASSHOPPER WARBLER AT HORSEY
GRASSHOPPER WARBLER
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RED ADMIRAL AT STRUMPSHAW FEN on the way home on Monday morning not enough sun for the Swallowtails to show.
Irish Ferries have started to operate from Dover this is the ISLE OF INISHMORE.
THE FIRST MARBLED WHITE OF THE YEAR
MARBLED WHITE.
PYRAMID ORCHIDS are enjoying a prolific year
LIME HAWKMOTH only the second record for my Kearsney garden
THE HIGH MEADOW DOVER- minutes before 9/10 BEE EATERS had been here.
PRESUMABLY THE SAME BEE EATERS TURNED UP AT GREAT YARMOUTH THE DAY WE LEFT.AND MADE THE LOCAL NEWS...
THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND THIS ROLLER ARRIVED IN SUFFOLK A TRULY STUNNING BIRD BUT THATS BIRDING -SOME YOU WIN ETC.
THE MAGNIFICENT SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY
AT STRUMPSHAW FEN IN 2016.
SMALL SKIPPER..
MOTH OF THE MONTH
Thats about it for now, just a few more. in the words of Jim Bowen of Bullseye fame Lets have a look at what you could have won:-
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