Another month of indifferent summer weather so had to make the most of the few fine days.Autumn is upon us and the birds are starting their long southerly migration to their wintering grounds.The last of Kents butterflies the Silver Spotted Skipper has its day this month and second generations of others begin to show.
CORN BUNTINGS have fared quite well in the new weedy fields on the cliffs.
BARN OWL at Oare
SOOTY
SHEARWATERAT DUNGENESS
WILLOW WARBLER SAMPHIRE HOE.
WOOD SANDPIPER Worth Marshes.
FLEDGLING STONECHAT at Samphire Hoe,Stonechats appear to have had a successful breeding season there.
Probably bird of the month was this MELODIOUS WARBLER below the Coastguard Station on Dover cliffs.
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PIED FLYCATCHER found not far from the previous bird on the same morning.
A YOUNG LITTLE GREBE ON BUSHY RUFF LAKE.
FULMARS AT THE CLIFFS WILL SOON LEAVE US FOR THE OPEN OCEAN
BEFORE RETURNING JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR.
COMMON SANDPIPER RESTHARROW SCRAPE
TWO YOUNG WATER RAILS HAVE BEEN STRUTTING ABOUT AT DANS DOCK, OARE
Normally Water Rails are very shy and wary birds but this pair haven`t learnt that yet.
THIN AS A RAIL
WHAT BIG FEET YOU HAVE!
TURNSTONE poking about in the bladderwrackat Oare still sporting some breeding plumage.
There has been an influx of WRYNECKS over the last couple of weeks,this one is one of two birds at the old rifle range at Abbotscliffe,not the best pictures I`m afraid, when it popped up it was against the light and I hadn`t changed my camera settings from the dull conditions earlier in the day.
A member of the woodpecker family that formerly bred in Kent
now just a passage migrant
It took me forty years to see my first Wryneck for one reason or another.
It gets its name from its ability to move its neck into abnormal positions.
Another passage migrant mostly seen in Autumn is the WHINCHAT,it can be an awkward customer to photograph as most are quite wary.
WHINCHAT AT SAMPHIRE HOE
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BLACK REDSTARTS have once again bred at Samphire hoe this year.
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SPOTTED FLYCATCHER in the ash grove Langdon Hole.
Thats about it for birds this month but a few butterfly pics are always welcome before they disappear for another year.
SMALL BLUE
SMALL COPPER
PEACOCK
CLOUDED YELLOW
GATEKEEPER
LARGE WHITE
LARGE WHITE female
WALL BROWN
SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER
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BRIMSTONE taking to the air
and back down to feed.
SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER
GREEN VEINED WHITE
PAINTED LADY
PEACOCK
SMALL BLUE
GATEKEEPER
BROWN ARGUS
BROWN ARGUS
BROWN ARGUS u/s
WALL BROWN
COMMON BLUE
CLOUDED YELLOW
SPECKLED WOOD
RED ADMIRAL
SMALL TORTOISHELL very small numbers locally until the end of the month when a few emerged to grace our buddleia bushes.
And finally a few odd pics to take us into September.
FOX IN THE BOX a young cub at Samphire Hoe.
COTE D`OPALE the new DFDS ferry
-BATTLING THE WAVES
-RNLB DANIEL L GIBSON
-OFF SAMPHIRE HOE
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ACTIV sailing by.
WASP SPIDERS appear in August at the Hoe
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LIZARD
UASC MIRDIF Exchanging crew off the Hoe
HEBRIDEAN PRINCESS in the cruise terminal at Dover.
SHADED BROADBAR
AUTUMN GENTIANS
CARLINE THISTLE
CHALK CARPET
-BOLETTE Fred Olsens latest cruise liner-formerly the Amsterdam Holland America Line.
AN OIL RIG BEING TOWED TO TURKEY TO BE SCRAPPED
A CROSS CHANNEL SWIMMER ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR FRANCE .
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PIED FLYCATCHER found not far from the previous bird on the same morning.
A member of the woodpecker family that formerly bred in Kent
now just a passage migrant
It took me forty years to see my first Wryneck for one reason or another.
It gets its name from its ability to move its neck into abnormal positions.
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