Mothers Day so I couldn't get out birding -I'd hoped to get out to the KOS walk at Boughton and was gutted to hear that LS Woodpecker, Barn Owl and Buzzard had all been seen.............grrrrrrrrrrr! Managed a brief walk over the orchards in Barming late in the afternoon and was rewarded with another (or the same) Small Tortoiseshell basking on the ragstone ridge I'd seen one last week.
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Showing posts with label Small Tortoiseshell. Show all posts
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Sunday 22nd March
Mothers Day so I couldn't get out birding -I'd hoped to get out to the KOS walk at Boughton and was gutted to hear that LS Woodpecker, Barn Owl and Buzzard had all been seen.............grrrrrrrrrrr! Managed a brief walk over the orchards in Barming late in the afternoon and was rewarded with another (or the same) Small Tortoiseshell basking on the ragstone ridge I'd seen one last week.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Sunday 15th March
Frustrated by not being able to get to my 'Wheatear' spot (they're dropping down everywhere this weekend) I had to make do with grabbing 10 minutes to get another indicator of the advancing Spring - butterflies. One of the orchards in East Barming is on a south-facing slope that leads down to the River Medway. Halfway down this slope is a ragstone bank and outcrop that alway looked to have potential for reptiles, but today I wondered if it' attract any butterflies that were on the wing. Sure enough it did and I was very pleased to count 1x Small Tortoiseshell, 3x Peacock and 5x Comma - not bad for March! 
The ragstone wall that yielded a bounty of butterflies.
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