Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
A windy day so I kept mainly within the woodland and continued with my recent tactic of searching under loose bark on rotting trunks and branches. Very obvious on the outer surface of the bark on one rotting Silver Birch bough was the fungus Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis). Under bark that had spalled off a […]
Monday, 12 May 2025
Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages), Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi), which I finally managed to photograph, and Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) were particularly noticeable today, but the latest to appear and also in good numbers is Small Blue (Cupid0 minimus). Another two insects added to my Downs list are the Black-striped Cranefly (Tipula vernalis) and a click […]