Twice More To The Nose

In a move made twice as shocking by its utter predictability, I again made early-ish morning visits to the Nose over the weekend.

Unlike weekdays, I met sundry assorted birders, and sundry assorted birds. :)

 

Also sundry assorted insects;

Orange-tip!!!!

"It'll stop in a minute" said Pete. He was amazingly right and I even got this. Irony is ironic that way, after what I put up from Exminster...

I'm not complaining, look at him!!!!  :D

Also the posey Wall threatened earlier;

Wall

Female

Wall

Male

Same light, very different butterflies! These were within 2' of each other. The books say males are darker, with the diagonal sex brand [special scales with lurrrve pheromones, designed to be wafted at females] but you don't normally see sex differences quite so clearly.

Speckled Wood

Adela reaumurella

[wow]

Ground Beetle sp.

Swallows have been trickling over, and Sunday saw the first Swift of the year for me, seen feeding from my kitchen window, though sadly only for a few minutes.

Wheatear!

At least 2 or 3 present both days.

Three is the number of singing male Whitethroat now confirmed at the Nose - two on the South Side are differently marked - though no further sign of Lesser [or Whinchats for anybody who isn't a teacher....].

The two spp. of warbler and three of finch are busy working on the next generation, and Razorbills have been seen on the Ore Stone - or rather in, they using the fold-caves on the upper right section - as well as hundreds of Guillemots. [Yes I am going to take a proper count when light and scope permit].

Rather mobile

But things were set to change. Strange things on the horizon [they call them clouds...] and the threat of.....

Seawatching......

ooh.

Be Seeing You...