The return of the Ivy Bees, Hill Road

 The Wild-flower front lawn always gets a mid-August mow. This exposes the south-tilted ground to the sun, in anticipation of the mass emergence of the Ivy Bees. The first few individuals were spotted today.

Curlew Sandpipers, Cuckmere Haven

There were three down on the scrape

Also present was a Black-tailed Godwit

Little Egret

Meadow Pipit

Curlew

Big-headed Ground Beetle

Bath time for Crow

Black-headed Gull roost

Distant Dunlin

Record shot of a Migrant Hawker

 

Willow Warbler, Hill Road

 

Fox, Jevington Plantation

Rarely seen in the wood. This looks like a juvenile.
 

Dorset: Wimborne Minster

A geocentric Astronomical Clock

The chained library

 

Saxon Chest

Wall Painting

Saxon Tower

Dorset: Kingcombe Meadows

An amazing place, a farm that has been unchanged since the First World War. 

Dozens of Swallows and House Martins, feeding over the meadows.

An abundance of Spotted Flycatchesr, over twenty around the meadows. Adults and juveniles.

Common Buzzard

Speckled Wood

Common Darter

Comma

Clouded Yellow. Yet again, this was the most common species of butterfly seen, with at least thirty individuals.

Pond Skaters

Lesser Fleabane

Woody Willowherb