Birling Gap

A very late visitor. This Hummingbird Hawkmoth did not have many flowers left to feed on.

Shooters Bottom

The passage migrants have all moved through, leaving the scrub to the resident species.

Robin

Song Thrush

Stonechat

Skylark

Goldfinch

Pulborough Brooks

A beautifully sunny autumn day at Pulborough Brooks.

Robin

Late Commas sipping on the sap of fallen fruit.

Another Robin

House Sparrows

Moth

Back-swimmer

Speckled Wood

Distant Snipe

Common Darter

Another Speckled Wood

This Kestrel eating a dragonfly it had plucked from the tips of reeds as they basked in the sun. 

Sovereign Harbour

There is a small pice of rough ground at Sovereign Harbour, which always attracts birds.

Starling

Common Seal

House Sparrow

Petworth

A beautiful day for a visit to West Sussex. Before we arrived at Petworth we had time for a quick walk at Lord's Piece.

I think this is a species of dung beetle.

Braken showing autumnal colour.

The beautiful light gave the birds on the lake at Petworth a sense of hyperreality.

Greylag Geese. I have never noticed the ring of pink surrounding the eye before.

Winter plumage Black-headed Gull

For half an hour I watched this Kestrel feed on dragonflies that it plucked from the tips of reeds as they basked. This was new to me.

Kestrel

Pied Wagtail. There were several on the roof of Petworth House.

Shooters Bottom

Early October at Shooters Bottom

Blackbird and Hawthorn berries.

Wasp

Another fantastic wasp species.

An Ichneumon species, possibly Ophion luteus.