A quick sortie at lunchtime into Barming Woods looking for reptiles once again drew a blank despite there being some ideal sun-baked habitats for them.
A good tally of 5x Peacocks and 1x Comma sunned themselves on the cinder path at the west end of Oaken Wood.
A Bee Fly hovered around some emerging Coltsfoot and 3x Chiffchaffs flitted and called through the coppice.
Well it makes a change from using arrows!
Best sighting of the day, and unfortunately not recorded with a photo, were 5x Common Buzzards by Dilly Rogers as they soared and displayed over the Research Station, East Malling at 16:30 before slowly drifting N towards the Medway Gap - nice spot Dill! There seem to quite a few Common Buzzards on the move at the moment, with good numbers migrating across the E of the county (see PlanetThanet)
3 comments:
Adam ,
Re. your search for reptiles yesterday , we often find that when the weather gets too hot and sunny too quickly , early in the year , the reptiles are much less likely to be seen fully out from cover . A case of too hot too quick . They tend to 'mosaic bask' , that is getting the warmth but whilst still mostly covered by vegetation .
Like the 'new' arrows .
Any news on those rosettes ?
Ive had a few ''almost a Wheatear'' moments too Adam :-)
Hi Adam, as usual, another post by your good self, with the subtle humour thrown in to bring a smile.
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