Cuckmere Haven

Glorious high pressure and unseasonal warmth and sun, meant a wonderful sunset at Cuckmere Haven.

Grey Heron

Redshank and Dunlin

Little Grebe

Little Egret

Stonechat

Grey Heron

Little Egret

Willingdon Hill

Long-tailed Tit

Chiffchaff

Toadflax. 

 

Castle Hill NNR

Meadow Pipit

Wall Brown

Hawthorn berries

Meadow Pipit
 

Flowering Ivy, Hill Road

The flowers were covered in a profusion of wasps, bees and flies.
 

Kestrel, Birling Gap

 

Wasp Spider, Belle Tout

Last year there were dozens of these at Belle Tout. This was the first one I have found this year, a large female spinning webs around a large egg sack.

Birling Gap

Another Bloody-nosed Beetle

Clustered Bellflower

Clouded Yellow

Green Woodpecker

Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Speckled Wood

Ivy Bees, Hill Road

A nesting burrow, one of at least fifty on the front lawn

The bees

Common Frog, also on the front lawn

A resting Ivy Bee

Some of the dozens of migrating House Martins, that were briefly over the house on Friday morning.