Category: insects
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September 2024
September is when visible migration really steps up a gear and my birding time over the month was largely spent soaking it up. It was a wet and unsettled month weather wise and this may have contributed to those those days of finer weather being particularly lively. Movement seems to occur on a broad front…
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July 2024
The long, warm days of July can mean only one thing: it’s time to start looking for that keenly awaited marker of midsummer; the arrival of juvenile Yellow-legged Gull from southern Europe. My first this year came on the 13th, with a flyby watched moving west from West Hill. In marked contrast to the riches…
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June 2024
It’s difficult to summarise the wildly variable weather experienced here during June but it certainly felt unseasonably cool for much of it. On the 1st of the month I spent the day at Rye Harbour NR (RHNR), a safe bet for interesting birding at the time of year with the last bits of wader passage…
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Convolvulus Hawk-moth at Pett Level, 1 October 2023
At Pett Level on Sunday 1st October I was enjoying a coffee with my partner at the Red Pig food truck in the layby near the pools, when something fluttered past in my peripheral vision. I knew it wasn’t a bird due to the erratic flight style and my first thought, given the size, was…