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Safari Britain, 26 July

Posted in Local sightings, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Belated report from the last Safari Britain walk.
Six of us enjoyed the best weekend weather for ages on a 2.5 hour walk around Firle Beacon. Virtually the first birds were two distant Hobbies, streaking around in the direction of Middle Farm. As we cut down through the field of corn, the regular Chiffchaff made apologetic [...]

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Moth pics

Posted in Local sightings, tagged , , , on August 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Another morning bug-watching on the escarpment above Firle, finally with a camera in hand. This smart Six-spot Burnet looked freshly emerged to my untrained eye – it certainly didn’t seem keen to fly.
There were Cinnabar moth caterpillars hanging off the ragwort everywhere. Is it me or are they more active than your average caterpillar? Several [...]

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Glowing orb seen in sky

Posted in Local sightings, tagged , , , , on July 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A morning so perfect it was almost worth the two months of rain that preceded it. An hour’s wander around the old quarry (three quarters of the way up the bostal road) was accompanied by many thousands of strands of silk drifting south, catching the sun as they passed by.
Bird-wise it was pretty quiet: a [...]

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