Sunday, 19 April 2026

Shinewater

Small White

Grey Squirrel

Osprey being mobbed by a Carrion Crow
 

Saturday, 18 April 2026

Abbot's Wood






There appears to be a yellow predatory wasp, closing in on one of the moths.





Green Longhorn Moths, leking behaviour.

Poor photo of a Treecreeper


Wood Ants

Speckled Yellow Moth

A shoal of Toad Tadpoles

Cormorant
 








Some of the best Bluebells I have seen for decades!



Bush Vetch, with attendant Wood Ants


Nightingale, with Garden Warbler. 

Zebra Jumping Spider, Hill Road


 

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Grey Squirrels, Jevington Plantation

 This year the Squirrels seem to have taken a liking for the Beech Tree leaf buds. The ground under some trees is covered with their leftovers.




Poor photo of a Bumblebee prospecting for a nest site.


Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Jevington, up to Holt Brow


 Song Thrush

Bluebells

Possible Asperitas clouds

Wild Garlic



Amazing drifts of Wild Garlic, near Holt Brow.



Short video of  a Blackcap and a Garden Warbler having a sing-off

Monday, 13 April 2026

Orchid Hunting, Belle Tout

Early Purple Orchid. 



Early Spider Orchid



Not an Oxlip, but a False Oxlip Primula vulgaris x veris

Cowslip

Blackthorn

Meadow Ant hammocks.

Another hybrid

A classic Cumulonimbus, or Thunder Cloud. Using rainfall radar I estimated that this one as just south of Canterbury, some 60 miles from Beachy Head.