Cattle at sunset across the meadows.

12th August.


Blue-tailed Damselfly - male.


Common Darter (Male)


Green-veined White Butterfly on Great Willow Herb

Peacock Butterfly on edge of arable field


Flax and Bistort in arable field


Female Southern Hawker

LOGBOOK SIGHTING

3 Green Sandpipers by Dipping Pond (Visitors).

15th August.


Oystercatchers and Curlew in flight at high tide.


Bar-tailed Godwits on tide edge


Lapwing on Saltmarsh Pool at high tide


Southern Hawker showing typical flight profile


Oystercatchers, Black-headed Gulls and Mallards at the tide's edge


Teal landing, Saltmarsh Pool

LOGBOOK SIGHTINGS

4 Buzzards, 2 Roe Deer (Visitor).

1Ring-tailed Hen Harrier from the hide (Visitor).

16th August.


Walkers crossing the Moss on the boardwalk

 

Common Darter (female)


Grey Heron landing


Activity on the mudflats


Cut meadow, start of haymaking. 

LOGBOOK SIGHTINGS

Female Marsh Harrier near blockhouses near Anthorn masts (JB).

17th August.


Meadow Brown on nettles.

LOGBOOK SIGHTINGS.

2 Painted Lady BF Rogersceugh Lonning 2-3pm (RDC).

18th August.


Young Swallow flying over the Lonning.

LOGBOOK SIGHTING.

2 Green Sandpiper on Dipping Pond (NVH & MAH).

1 Osprey over sea going N and 1 female Sparrowhawk (A J Richards).

20th August.


Bar-tailed Godwits and Curlew on the mudflats


Female Great Spotted Woodpecker


Juvenile Bullfinch


Juvenile and Male Bullfinch


Begging to be fed.

LOGBOOK SIGHTING.

Hundreds of Green-veined White butterflies over the meadows to the east, 1 Clouded Yellow, Meadow Browns, Peacocks, and Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, Buzzard, Kestrel (Visitor).

23rd August.

 

Baling, haymaking continued.


The finished product.

 LOGBOOK SIGHTING.

Comma Butterfly, Wall Brown, Small Copper and Southern Hawker (M & A Abbs).