Return migration begins in earnest this month and the last of the butterflies appear.Another month with little rain means everywhere is parched and brown,hopefully September will bring relief and fill our depleted ponds and rivers and get the grass growing again.
SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER the final butterfly of the year to appear,unless any migrants turn up later.
PIED FLYCATCHER Foxhill Down
PIED FLYCATCHER Langdon Cliffs.
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER Foxhill Down.
WHEATEAR with colour ring F09
Evidently ringed on Skokholm off the west coast of Wales.
Record shot of juvenile CUCKOO at Samphire Hoe just before it crosses the channel and heads south to Africa without guidance from its parents or previous experience,an amazing feat,
THE CHOUGHS ARE COMING
THE YOUNG CHOUGHS IN THEIR HOLDING CAGE.
ADONIS BLUE
ADONIS BLUE
ADONIS BLUE
ADONIS BLUE
ADONIS BLUE
45596 BAHAMAS RUNNING THROUGH CHILHAM STATION
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COMMON BLUE
COMMON BLUE
WASP SPIDER AT Samphire Hoe.
YOUNG LINNET Samphire Hoe
LISTEN AND LEARN WITH MOTHER -LINNETS
GREY SEAL SWIMMING OFF THE SEA WALL Samphire Hoe.
PAINTED LADY at South Foreland
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CHALKHILL BLUE.
KATARA Another plaything of the super rich.
HMS MERSEY On patrol off Samphire Hoe.
NORTHERN WHEATEARS on migration Langdon Cliffs.
NORTHERN WHEATEAR
KESTREL Langdon Hole
-BLOODY BEAKED KES
20 WHITE STORKS above Samphire Hoe.
DEUTSCHLAND
A few moths to end with.
GYPSY MOTH
SALLOW KITTEN
ANGLE SHADES
SWALLOW PROMINENT.
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