Common Blues, Birling Gap

 

Red-necked Phalarope, West Rise Marsh

Species number 126 at West Rise Marsh was worth a second try!
 

Grey Seals, Beachy Head

 

Black-necked Grebe, West Rise Marsh

My second of the year at West Rise Marsh. No luck finding the reported Red-necked Phalarope, which was, of course, refound after I had left.
 

Rye Harbour

Sanderling

Oystercatchers

An early Autumn visit on a gloriously sunny day. The lagoons were quiet, but held some interesting birds. The highlight has to be watching different waders feed along the edge of the incoming tide.

More Oystercatchers, with some other waders.

Curlew Sandpipers

Ringed Plover

Dunlin

Turnstone

Sanderling

Sanderling and Ringed Plover

Dunlin

Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover and Dunlin

Little Egret

Cormorant, with a Herring Gull

Little Grebe, in alarmingly green water.

Redshank

Great Crested Grebe

House Sparrow

Some record shots:

Two distant Knott

Spotted Redshank

A Grey Heron, which looks like it has just eaten an Eel

 

Fairy Inkcap, Jevington Plantation

 

Heathy Brow

 

Early Autumn, Jevington Plantation

 

The return of the Ivy Bees, Hill Road

 The Wild-flower front lawn always gets a mid-August mow. This exposes the south-tilted ground to the sun, in anticipation of the mass emergence of the Ivy Bees. The first few individuals were spotted today.

Heathy Brow

 

Fox Moth caterpillar

Curlew Sandpipers, Cuckmere Haven

There were three down on the scrape

Also present was a Black-tailed Godwit

Little Egret

Meadow Pipit

Curlew

Big-headed Ground Beetle

Bath time for Crow

Black-headed Gull roost

Distant Dunlin

Record shot of a Migrant Hawker