I discovered yesterday that on my return leg I was just a
few hundred yards from a colony of Small Blues right alongside the Eurostar
track so I retraced my way back up the road at nine this morning in the hope
that the early sunshine would have reached that spot by the time I got there.
I was not disappointed and soon had Small Blues flicking around
all over the place. There were in the
flower rich patch either side and on the green bridge that I discovered on the
14th with a few Common Blues for company. There were two patches of
Kidney Vetch that I could see but there must be more as I counted 26 of this tiny
butterfly.
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| Small Blue |
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| Common Blue |
Eristalis intracaria
were hovering at eye level and I saw two Xanthogramma
pedissequum agg and my first Baccha elongata
of the year along with five species of Bumblebee which had discovered the
Brambles.
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| the Ox Eye Daisies were an insect magnet |
I worked my way into the young coppice woods adding another
Garden Warbler territory before discovering a new tunnel back into the
houses.
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| Quaking Grass? |
I had one spot that I wanted to
check and was delighted to get stunning views of a pair of Peregrines and discovered
another colony of Small Blues although a fence stopped me getting any closer!
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| female Peregrine up with a Buzzard |
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| Field Scabious |
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| Purple Toadflax |
I was home for lunch and with so many Red Kites on the move
again it was not overly surprising to see an immature drift over heading north
west. It was equally unsurprising that
Rob up the road had seven more go through in the next couple of hours, all of
which snuck behind my available view.
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| Red Kite |
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| Mr Peg |
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| Med Gull |
The male Peregrine paid me a visit and a Hobby almost took a
juvenile Starling from the top of the fir next door which took everyone by
surprise and Med Gulls cruised around with the local Black-heads. It was all quite pleasant!
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