Of Dragonflies and Butterflies….and a Hobby!

A trip to the London Wetland Centre in search of late summer dragonflies and butterflies last week. Lots of Migrant … More

Northward Hill

A walk through the RSPB reserve at Northward Hill in north Kent with Keith. We walked through the reserve from … More

Dungeness

A trip with Nicole and Andrew to the south-east coast of Kent and the weird and wonderful world of the … More

Wessex Wildlife

A few days away from London in Early August and the chance to look for Butterflies and Dragonflies in Southern … More

Highlights of 2023 (2): Small Red-eyed damselfly at Eltham Palace.

Early July sees the emergence of the Small Red-eyed damselfly. From my local recording some years ago I knew of … More

Memories of Summer

As I sit here today, looking out over the gardens, it is a grey and miserable day and the rain … More

Searching for Ivy

This week’s local walk had another purpose: I checked out all the patches of Ivy to look for Ivy Bees, … More

An interesting variety of Insects

A bright and sunny morning, but rather breezy for last week’s local survey walk. Strangely I only saw 7 butterflies … More

Tilbury delights

A lovely sunny day found Keith and I crossing the Thames to one of our favourite sites at Tilbury Fort. … More

Butterflies galore in between the rain.

On Monday I visited the RSPB reserve at Broadwater Warren with Nicole and Andrew. I have not visited this reserve … More