21st June: Wandering Crab Spider, Hiil Road

 This Crab Spider has mistaken the parasol for a large flower.

Summer Solstice, Foxholes Brow

 An energetic predawn climb, up the overgrown Green Path, had to carry bramble averse Bracken. The dawn chorus was wonderful, with Wren, Chiffchaff, Blackcap and Blackbird singing with incredible intensity. At the top, this was replaced with Skylark and Woodpigeon in a massed sussuration.

Two Buzzards hovered in a gentle yet persistent breeze. A Swift started feeding overhead.  The Rooks, who we had watched fly down to roost last night from the garden, flew west, over us, with their characteristic croaking contact calls.

The mist across the Pevensey Levels was beautiful, as the sun rose over the High Weald horizon in the east.

The Buzzards.

Twenty-two-spot Ladybird, Hill Road

 

Long Hoverfly, Hill Road

 

Red Admiral, Chalk Farm

 

20th June: Warren Hill

Small Skipper 

Red-tailed Bumblebee on Viper's Bugloss 

Bird's-foot Trefoil 

Smooth Hawksbeard 

Spotted Orchid 

Caterpillar of Six-spott Burnett Moth 

Walnuts

Field Scabious

Lesser Stitchwort 

19th June: Willingdon Hill

An early Glow-worm

Cockchafer and Cresent Moon.

Most bushes had dozens of Cockchafers swarming about.