A QUIET WEEK

COMMON SANDPIPERLITTLE RINGED PLOVERCOMMON SANDPIPER BATHINGGREEN SANDPIPER CONTORTIONISTGREEN SAND ON TIPTOERED ADMIRALLINNET SAM HOELUNAR SPOTTED PINIONPEACOCKFIRST TOMATO OF THE SEASONLYDDEN DOWNSILVER SPOTTED SKIPPERCOMMON BLUE (female)COMMON BLUE (female)PAINTED LADY

Since my last post I  have been to the Kent Beer Festival at Canterbury on thursday evening,the Madness gig at Quex Park on saturday.Langdon Cliffs sunday morning.cricket at Hythe sunday afternoon,Backsand scrape monday afternoon,Samphire hoe tuesday and wednesday,Lydden Downs this morning and this weekend its off to the Pickering jazz fest in Yorkshire so a fairly quiet week really.Unfortunately there are no pics from Quex Park but it was a really good evenings entertainment especially good were the Blockheads even without Ian Dury.Backsand held 16 greenshank 17 redshank,a dozen common sand ,6 green sand,5 or 6 juvenile little ringed plovers afew lapwings 2 oystercatchers and 3 little egrets.Autumn migration is underway with a sedge warbler and 3 willow warblers at the hoe on tuesday.The first silver spotted skipper of the summer was seen at Lydden this morning.The garden continues to attract visitors with a migrant hawker yesterday and a couple of painted ladies today on the hemp agrimony.Best moth of the week was a lunar spotted pinion.