butterflies
30 Jun 2025
Lots of butterlfeis on the wing today in this hot spell, including meadow brown, gatekeeper, peacock, red admiral, comma and small copper (image attached)
Wilding Notes
Rare hawkmoth
21 Jun 2025
A Striped Hawkmoth at Lavender Cottage, quite a rare immigratn from Europe.
Jeremy
Twenty-plume moth
27 Jun 2025
A lovely micro-moth in the Secret Garden: a Twenty-plume, here much enlarged.
Bush cricket
29 Jun 2025
A roesel's bush cricket on our back door
Jeremy
hirundine passage
28 Jun 2025
Very large movement of swallows and sand martins south over Shingle Street. Was surprised in particular by the number of sand martins.
Jeremy
Shingle Marshes video
05 Feb 2025
I have just posted a video which gives a birds-eye view of the work done digging the channels and scrapes. Many thanks to Craig who made the video with his drone.
Go to Shingle Marsh Video to view.
scrape works
13 Dec 2024
He finished off the scrape today, so now we leave the field alone, keep off it and wait to see what happens ...
While I was there a buzzard and a male marsh harrier cruised by, followed later in the afternoon by two short-eared owls and a barn owl. Suggests there must be field voles around
Jeremy
first visitors
12 Dec 2024
The channels are dug and the scrape nearly finished. On a quick walk round there was a little egret in one of the new channels, a party of about ten pied wagtails around the newly dug scrape and a common snipe shot up from the reeds. All the while a barn owl was patrolling the ditch. Very promising!
Jeremy
Jeremy
Spoonbill
16 Jul 2024
Spoonbill flying low over SS, probably making for one of the pools between here and East Lane. Maybe when we have our own lagoon ...
Jeremy
Barn owl
16 Jul 2024
A barn owl hunting over Shingle Marshes at 9pm. Made several stoops on prey it had detected – mostly field voles, probably. On one occasion it stayed down i the long grass for several minutes so had presumably caught and devoured something.
Jeremy
