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Saturday 15 August 2015

Lullingstone & Fackenden Down

Nice walk this week with Banded Demoiselle - always good to see - with over a dozen males and at least two females.   Adding to the day was an Odonata tick for me; White-legged Damselfly.  Rubbish photos which will end up in the bin, but it was good to find.   Several males and a female.

Banded Demoiselle
After lots of coastal sites recently, was good to see some different flora species - Dark Mullein, Dwarf Thistle and I love scabious, so seeing fields with lots of wild flower species including many scabious was a delight.

Birds took a bit of a back seat on this walk, although a young Robin was great to see and Treecreeper was found by the visitor centre, feeding on a tree trunk completely oblivious to the crowd gathering below.
Dark Mullein & insect (id required)

A group of House Martins fed over the fields, chattering as they went, and there were a few Swallow higher up.

Several insect photographs will just be adding to my ever-expanding collection of "id required"s

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