July has started and the grass on the Downs as already long and yellow. There is currently a cooler interlude, between heatwaves. In the evenings the hills bathe gloriously in golden light as chalk glaland flowers grow and butterflies speed past on the breeze.
Saw my first Cinnabar caterpillars on Ragwort.
I am still delighting in my new camera. Today I became really surprised at just how long the claws are on some species of bird. The light at Birling Gap was beautiful, as we walked through the chalkland flowers to Horseshoe Plantation. Skylark, Corn Bunting, Linnet, Meadow Pipit and Stonechat were in full song and the Scabious flowers looked fantastic.
Six-spot Burnett Moth on Field Scabious
