Saturday, 21 July 2012

21 July 2012 Beachy Head Fine & sunny, NE 1-3

 We covered from Birling Lane to the Hotel Garden. Just the odd returning migrants but butterflies were showing in fair numbers:


Kestrel 1 Juv.
Peregrine 3-4
Oystercatcher 10 on beach
Curlew 1 on beach
Herring Gull 1 3rdcy. with red ring with black lettering on left leg - AX1T on beach.
Swift 3
Stonechat 6
Common Whitethroat 14
Blackcap 1 juv. type at Birling
Willow Warbler 2
Tree Creeper 1 B/T wood
Corn Bunting 1 singing


Chalk Hill Blue 12
Small Heath 3
Small Copper 2
Small Skipper 6
Dark Green Fritillary 9
Comma 1
Red Admiral 1
Meadow Brown 15
Gatekeeper 20
Marbled White 15





Juvenile Blackcap at Birling


Ringed Herring Gull on beach at Birling


Curlew on beach at Birling



 




 

Adult Peregrine starting moult.



Juvenile Peregrine


Juv. Kestrel


Round-headed Rampion


Marbled White



Male Chalk Hill Blue

 
Underwing of the male Chalk Hill Blue





Gatekeepers



Dark Green Fritillary



Huge Puffball around a foot wide.



Bee-mimic
Volucella bombylans mimicing a White-tailed Bumblebee