SPRINGTIME BUTTERFLIES OF EAST KENT.

 The dry warm spring has meant a better year for our resident butterflies than of late and most have been seen a little earlier than normal.

BRIMSTONE

COMMA

PEACOCK

BRIMSTONE

SPECKLED WOOD

SMALL TORTOISHELL THIS ONE AT WORTH WILL HAVE OVERWINTERED

ORANGETIP

GREEN HAIRSTREAK

GREEN HAIRSTREAK

SMALL COPPER

DINGY SKIPPER

LARGE WHITE

WALL BROWN

RED ADMIRAL

SPECKLED WOOD

ORANGE TIP

COMMON BLUE

COMMON HEATH MOTH

SMALL WHITE

SMALL HEATH.

GRIZZLED SKIPPER

GRIZZLED SKIPPER

ADONIS BLUE

ADONIS BLUE

DUKE OF BURGUNDY

GREEN VEINED WHITE.

SMALL BLUE

HOLLY BLUE

WE ARE NOW INTO MAY

BROWN ARGUS AT DUNGENESS RSPB

BROWN ARGUS

BROWN ARGUS U/S

PAINTED LADY 

PAINTED LADY U/S

A FRESH SMALL TORTOISHELL ONE OF SEVERAL SEEN AT WORTH,

BURNET COMPANION MOTH

ANOTHER PAINTED LADY.

LARGE SKIPPER.

AIN`T NO TIME TO SIT AROUND AND SWOON.

 Maytime is probably the busiest month in the birding calendar, Spring migration is in full swing, the possibility of unusual sightings is almost a daily expectation,this year has been no exception ,not that I have seen many of them.

My best bird was found by Jamie Partridge on Foxhill Down,a superb adult male RED BACKED SHRIKE gave excellent views to quite a few admirers on the 16th.

RED BACKED SHRIKE

PEREGRINE FALCON

SEDGE WARBLER AT DUNGENESS RSPB

REED BUNTING

SWIFT ON A DULL AFTERNOON AT WORTH

WHITETHROAT

110 SANDERLINGS ON THE BEACH AT SANDWICH

SOME SHOWING A BIT OF SUMMER PLUMAGE

-ON MIGRATION TO THEIR BREEDING GROUNDS IN THE ARCTIC.

RINGED PLOVER NEARBY.

COMMON SANDPIPER -RESTHARROW SCRAPE

BOXING HARES AT WORTH

THE ONE ON THE RIGHT HAS A BLOODY NOSE.

GARGANEY -STODMARSH

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HOBBY

RED CRESTED POCHARD ARC PIT DUNGENESS

COMMON TERNS AT STODMARSH.

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SKYLARK AT SAMPHIRE HOE

A STRIKING MALE WHEATEAR AT SAMPHIRE HOE

WHEATEAR They have been thin on the ground this Spring.

WHEATEAR

GREAT CRESTED GREBES

FOUR SPOTTED CHASER

HOBBY AT WORTH

GREEN WINGED ORCHID

HAIRY DRAGONFLY

WATER RAIL

WATER RAIL

LESSER WHITETHROAT TRILLING

LESSER WHITETHROAT LANGDON CLIFFS

BANDED DEMOISELLE -STODMARSH.

WHITE HELLEBORINES 

IN A LOCAL WOODLAND.

Thats all for now see ya next month.