Birling Gap

Three of the five Song Thrush anvils we found.

 

Butterflies on The White Path, Hill Road

July is here. Time to survey the butterflies on the White Path above Hill Road. The hot weather has been interrupted by bursts of significant rain, so conditions are building up to be very good for numbers.

Species seen: (12 species, 112 individuals)

Gatekeeper 31

Common Blue 6

Meadow Brown 13

Large White 12

Peacock 14

Small Copper 2

Red Admiral 20

Comma 4

Speckled Wood 7

Small White 1

Green-veined White 1

White Admiral 1

Non-butterflies:

Silver Y

Hummingbird Hawkmoths

Field Cuckoo Bumblebee

Common Darter

Buddleia pony

Small Copper

Ringlet

Comma

Red Admiral

Comma

Ringlet

 Common Darters, seemingly perched at the tip of every twig.

Field Cuckoo Bumblebee 

Median Wasp

Hayden Country Park, Tonbridge

Adult Starling (top) with juveniles

Stock Dove

Meadow Brown

Red-eyed Damselfly

Common Blue Damselfly

Black-tailed Skimmer

Juvenile Robin, just coming into adult plumage

Great Crested Grebe, adult and juvenile

Juvenile Coot

Great Crested Grebe

Coot

Ornate Digger Wasp, with excavation heaps.

Gren-veined White

Pied Wagtail

Swifts, Borough Green

 The glorious sound of screaming Swifts on a warm Summer's evening. At least fifty were in the sky.