June 16th: Willingdon Hill

Viper's Bugloss 

Yellow Mignonette

Rosebay Willowherb 

Hedge Bedstraw 

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

 

12th June: Wildflower Lawn, Hill Road

#38 Red Clover

#39 Weedy Hawk's Beard

#40 Orange Hawkweed 

#41 Silvery Plantain 

#42 Ragwort 

Ladybird pupae
 

11th June: Cornflower, Hill Road

 

10th June: Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner, Jevington Plantation

 

June 9th: Horse Chestnuts, Jevington Plantation

 Summer

A small Chicken-of-the-Woods fungus, on a Yew Tree

8th June: Ox-eye Daisies, Beachy Head

 

Mullein Moth, Hill Road

 The moth that lays on Purple Toadflax.

Pyramidal Orchid and Great Green Bush Cricket, Hill Road

Flowering species #34 is starting to look great. #34

 

7th June: Honey Buzzard, Ashdown Forest

Distant record shots of the Honey Buzzard.

Mistle Thrush, one of at least 6.

 Lovely Oak Tree

6th June: Bee Orchids, Belle Tout

On good years there can be 50+ spikes of Bee Orchid here, but this year we could find 12. All bar 2 of these were without pigmentation. However, I am not sure whether they are Ophrys apifera var. flavescens or  var. chlorantha.

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