Summer Holiday Day 44: Wryneck, Beachy Head

Genuinely thrilled to finally catch up with a Wryneck at Beachy Head. I have come and looked in vain so many times after a reported sighting. Twice I have heard them call from a well hidden location. Today I saw and heard!

Chiffchaff

Whinchat

 

Summer Holiday Day 43: Tilgate Park, Crawley

A pair of Egyptian Geese, giving me a great look at their tail feathers
 

Summer Hoilday Day 42: Seaford Beach

Wild sea, and a wild sky
 

Summer Holiday Day 42: Seaford Head

After the first heavy rain for weeks, these Linnets took advantage of the standing water to have a bit of a bath.

Clouded Yellow. One of three seen.

Burnett Moth cocoon cases

Clustered Bellflower 

Harpalus tardus

 

Summer Holiday Day 40: Harvestman with Red Spider-mite, Ashdown Forest

 

Summer Hoilday Day 40: River Medway, near Hartfield

Water Mint

Red-legged Shield Bug

 

Summer Holiday Day 40: Hill Road

Stripe-backed Fleckwing

Summer Holiday Day 39: Medusa clouds over Eastbourne

Rain falling from these clouds evaporates before it reaches the ground.

Dramatic and busy skies as the long hot weather of the summer is replaced by the first front from former hurricane Erin.

Summer Holiday Day 38: Hill Road

Caterpillar of the White Ermine moth

Common Blue 

Summer Hoilday Day 38: Eider, Eastbourne Seafront

The female was still present. I swam a few metres away from it.

Summer Hoilday Day 38: Beachy Head

Watched Grey Seals, Swallows and a Kestrel from the clifftop. 

Several dozen Grey Seals were very interested in the humans on Falling Sands

Falling Sands, shrinking as the tide rose

Common Blue