Six-Spot Burnet Zygaena filipendulae Lava North Foreland, a photo by Kinzler Pegwell on Flickr.
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Sunday, 20 May 2012
In hot weather try to avoid putting out dry food such as stale bread, as this can increase the chance of dehydration. Always chop nuts or use a feeder, as whole nuts can choke baby birds.
•Birds nesting, especially Fulmars along Pegwell cliffs
•Song birds still singing – ‘the dawn chorus’
•There will be an increase of Butterflies and Dragonflies
•Bats on the wing
•Meadow flowers, including orchids can be found in Stonelees
•Chalk and Limestone grasslands in flower
•Swifts, Swallows and House Martins chasing insects.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Large Red-belted Clearwing Synanthedon culiciformis ab flavocingulata Blean Woods, a photo by Kinzler Pegwell on Flickr.
With thanks to Francis Solly
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Probably the commonest of our hawk-moths, it has a strange attitude when at rest, with the hindwings held forward of the forewings, and the abdomen curved upwards at the rear. If disturbed it can flash the hindwings, which have a contrasting rufous patch, normally hidden.
Distributed commonly throughout most of Britain, the adults are on the wing from May to July, when it is a frequent visitor to light.