LATE FLUTTERINGS

As summer draws to a close,afternoons like todays have to be cherished and stored up for the long winter ahead.It was good to see the late flutter of tiny wings as the long tailed blues came out to enjoy the warm sunshine,there were also good numbers of Adonis,common, and chalk hill blues on show some still fresh looking.

 SPECKLED WOOD

RED ADMIRAL

 ADONIS BLUE

 

ADONIS BLUE

 

 

 

 

CHALK HILL BLUE

 ANYONE FOR CRICKET

LONG TAILED BLUE

 

LONG TAILED BLUE

LONG TAILED BLUE

In addition to the above there were brown argus and common blue,small copper,small tortoishell and a single clouded yellow of note.

In the morning a quick stroll along the pier saw a common seal on the hoverpad and a female common scoter in the outer harbour,sadly it appears to have some fishing net or line around its neck,an uncertain future awaits.

COMMON SCOTER

PIED WAGTAIL--CHISWICK  CHISWICK

COMMON SEAL

 

SEPTEMBER SONG

The month is rolling on and I have been extremely indolent about blogging recently,I learnt earlier that my blog,amongst others,  may have been innocently complicit in the removal of certain items of natural history from their rightful place ,so I am a little disillusioned with the whole business. In future there will be no precise locations on my blog where it involves rare or unusual findings.
Apart from that I haven`t had much luck with the camera anyway,can`t get anything sharp with the Nikon lens so will be changing to Canon very soon.Here are a few pics from the month so far

 SMALL COPPER

 SPOTTED CRAKE

SPOTTED CRAKE

 DANCING RAVEN

 BROWN ARGUS

 SMALL TORTOISHELL-has been a very good year for them on one day at the hoe I counted 155.

 ADONIS BLUE-the second generation finally emerged early in the month.

 SEABOURN SOJOURN-one of the more stylish cruise ships to visit Dover.

COSTA PACIFICA-Sister ship to the ill fated Costa Concordia.

SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER- Somewhere on the cliffs.

 SPITFIRE

HURRICANE- Free airshow on the cliffs most weekends.

 LAST NIGHTS FULL MOON

 CURLEW SANDPIPER

 LITTLE EGRET

REDSHANK.