Whooper Swan, West Rise Marsh

 My giddy aunt! Patch tick #123.

Odonata!, Hill Road

 My first of the year. Large Red Damselfly. 

A male.

Missing-sector Orb Weaver. A new species for me!

A female.

Dryad's Saddle, Friston Forest

 

Another Woodpecker hole, Jevington Plantation

 

Whimbrel, Birling Gap

 A glorious evening and the newly repaired stairway, down to Birling Gap.

Then 7 Whimbrel flew in off the sea.

Jackdaws and Fulmar on the cliffs

Juvenile Dunnock, Hill Road

 

Wildflower Lawn 2026

 After  three week pause, some more flowers have emerged.

#20 Salad Burnett 

#21 Aquilegia 

#22 Yellow Rattle 

#23 Buttercup

#24 Weedy Hawkweed