A time of Insects and Flowers. Birds quieten down so now is the time to get out to see Butterflies and later flowering Orchids.
We will travel further afield to seek out the specialities or stay local to enjoy the local breeding birds going about raising their young.
Wartbiter Bush Crickets:
A trip to Castle Hill Nature Reserve near Brighton to seek out the very rare Wartbiter Bush Cricket. This huge nature reserve also holds a good selection of butterflies including Clouded yellows. Recent years has also had Long Tailed Blues breeding nearby so if they are present we will look for them. We will also go looking for Silver Spotted Skippers which breed on a number of nearby Downland.
Scorpion hunt!! :
A long day in Kent where we will spend the day seeking out the best sites before moving up to Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey to look for the Yellow Tailed Scorpions which have colonised an historic dock wall for over 100 years. This is one of my favourite trips with a great range of wildlife, unlike any other day out! We will firstly head to Dungeness to see what we can find but will include Marsh Frogs and nearby Autumn Ladies Tresses. We can then head northwards to Oare Marshes where there is often a fantastic range of waders and a returning Bonaparte’s Gull usually spends the summer. As darkness approaches we will visit the dock wall and use a UV torch to find the tiny Scorpions. They hide in tiny crevices but come out after dark to hunt. We will leave Sudbury at 7AM and return around midnight.
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