Shinewater

Small White

Grey Squirrel

Osprey being mobbed by a Carrion Crow
 

Abbot's Wood

There appears to be a yellow predatory wasp, closing in on one of the moths.

Green Longhorn Moths, leking behaviour.

Poor photo of a Treecreeper

Wood Ants

Speckled Yellow Moth

A shoal of Toad Tadpoles

Cormorant
 

Grey Squirrels, Jevington Plantation

 This year the Squirrels seem to have taken a liking for the Beech Tree leaf buds. The ground under some trees is covered with their leftovers.

Poor photo of a Bumblebee prospecting for a nest site.

Jevington, up to Holt Brow

 Song Thrush

Basking Hoverflies, Jevington Plantation

 A bright spot of sunshine had attracted about 6 hoverflies. Most of the are Migrant Hoverflies.

Beachy Head

 Marvellous patches of Gound Ivy

One of the Beachy head Peregrin pair

100 Acre Wood, Ashdown Forest

Gorse in full flower.

Some of the magnificent Beech trees in the wood.

Honey Bees

 An old, well used lane

Tree Pipit

Ancient Sweet Chestnut, Duddleswell

 

Chelwood Vachery, Ashdown Forest

It took some finding, but eventually we found our way to the ruined garden, in a valley below Chelwood Vachary called Edward's Place. Several dams in the valley have formed a series of ponds, and there is a dramatic stone Bridge.

 

PignutPignut

Asian Skunk Cabbage, an invasive species.

Wood Sorrel

One of the pools form by the many dams built in the valley.

Beech

Pheasant