Author Archives: David Bryant

A most successful day and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Numerous shags, far outnumbering the cormorants, three eider, four red-breasted mergansers, the inevitable hordes of guillemots on the north-facing ledges intermingled with  kittiwakes on their seaweed nests, close views of at … Continue reading →

A rewarding visit to the extensive disused limestone quarries a short distance above Minera. The wooded lower slopes had numerous common twayblade, a good cluster of broad-leaved  helleborine and a meadow full of meadow browns, ringlets and common spotted orchids. … Continue reading →

A very noisy place on the lagoon behind the steep shingle bank what with 1600 pairs of sandwich terns, 100 pairs of common terns and some 40 pairs of arctic terns – a constant relay of birds – all incoming … Continue reading →

Very warm, sunny day proved excellent for butterflies on a circuit of the Marine  Drive – large numbers of silver-studded blues, impressive numbers of graylings on the hot rocks, 7-8 small pearl-borded fritillaries, several large skippers,ringlet, red admiral, ringlet, small … Continue reading →

Garden warbler, wood warbler and blackcap in the oakwoods. Higher up with fewer trees, fresh shoots of bracken and low gorse as many as 8 dark green fritillaries flying about in a small area, feeding on bramble flowers – another … Continue reading →

Redstart, lesser spotted woodpecker, red kite, little egret, grey heron, buzzard, sedge warbler, willow warbler, blackcap, wood warbler, hen harrier, robin on a sandy path and tree creeper on tree trunk-both sunning themelves.   Brown and migrant hawker, common blue and … Continue reading →

Pair of Shelduck, Cockchafer  and Green Tiger beetle, Dingy Skippers, 4-Spotted Chasers and Early Purple Orchid in Trowbarrow Quarry with Jackdaws nesting in crevices in the vertical rock face.Brimstones, Pearl-borded Fritillary and good display of Birdseye Primrose at little Hawes … Continue reading →

Great spotted and green woodpeckers, pied flycatchers(5), pair of spotted flycatchers, wood warbler, half a dozen garden warblers, siskins, redpolls, buzzards, osprey, peregrine and a very confiding tree creeper feeding on top of a low wall  right in front of … Continue reading →

Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat plus Willow, Reed, Sedge and Grasshopper Warblers, Whinchat, Wheatears, Swift, Whimbrel, Yellow and White Wagtails, young Lapwings, Buzzards. Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Orange Tip, Speckled Wood, Holly Blue, Green-veined White.

Black Grouse (9), Red Grouse, Cuckoos, Tree Pipits, Grasshopper Warbler, Stonechat, Redstart, Redpolls, Crossbills