15th June: Hill Road

Black and Yellow Mud-dauber Wasp

Large Red Damslefly 

 Green Shielbug

14th June: Hill Road and Jevington Plantation

Musk Mallow

Silver Plantain

Broad-leaved Willowherb 

Black Walnut

Green Dock
 

Wildflower Lawn, Hill Road

 #43 Black Medick 

13th June: Coach Road Meadow, near Penhurst

Our last visit here was in the heat of late May, after a very dry Spring. Several weeks of wetter Weather had transformed the grassland. It was covered in Dyer's Broom and Ox-eye Daisies, and leaping with tiny Grasshopper and Cricket images. There had also bee a mass emergence of Meadow Browns, plus my first Marbled White of the year.

Some bird sightings, however, exceeded all else. A Hobby, two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers and at least two Goshawk!

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In this video, you can just about see the tiny Orthoptera, leaping as I approached

Common Spotted Orchid 

Bettany

Meadow Grasshopper 

Knapweed 

Spider-hunting Wasp, Hill Road

 

Shooters Bottom

Quaking Grass

Self Heal

Six-spott Burnett Moth, on Wild Thyme

Caterpillar of the Oak Eggar Moth

Thick-kneed Flower Beetle, Hill Road