Milkwort

In White, Blue and Pink

Greenlandish Whitearse and greenish flora

Greenlandish Wheatear

Fringed Rupturewort

Landquilwort at its best!

Spring flora and Beetles

Petty Whin

Subterranean Clover

Red Poplar Leaf Beetle Chrysomela populi on host Creeping willow

Green Tiger Beetle

Hairy Greenweed

Prostrate Broom

Western Clover

Small wave action

Bar-Tailed godwits coming into summer plumage

 

 

Waders on the bar

Whimbrel and Bar-tailed godwit 

More late April pics

An Early Four-spotted Chaser with crumpled wings on emergence

Green-winged Orchid are now widespread in unimproved grasslands

Dock Leaf Bug - Coreus Marginatus Also known as Brown Squash Bug

Sun bathing toadies

April Pics

Spring Sedge

Soapy Cove

Male Wheatear tail fanning in display

Swallow

Many of the local male swallows are back on territory, with steady migration on most days at the moment.

Willow warbler

The sound of spring 

Grasshopper Warbler and Greylag

From the last couple of days

A Track on the downs

Meadow pipit

Coverack

smarty

Smarties

Recent Spring Pics

One of the singing locals

Unlike the local frogs, the toads always seem to spawn in spring

Ivy-leaved Crowfoot

Butterflies on the wind now include Small Copper, Wall, Speckled Wood, Large and Small White and the hibernating species Comma, Small Tort, Peacock. The first migrant Painted Ladies are also arriving

Willow warbler

Crousa Heath