Friday 21st September 2007 Broadstairs Thanet
This Eyed Hawkmoth caterpillar (Smerinthus
ocellata) was found on our shed in Broadstairs Thanet and this Forest
Bug (Pentatoma rufipes) was found on my sons coat when he arrived
home from college, both on the 20th September (Simon P)
Sunday 16th September 2007 Westwood Thanet
In the past fairly common and widespread across Thanet,
rather scarce these days of course, I came across a few specimens of
Dryad's Saddle near the Star Lodge at Westwood. (F Solly)
Friday 14th September 2007 Western
Undercliff Ramsgate
Another
brief lunchtime cruise along the Western Undercliff - and a single
Clouded Yellow was once again seen, a different individual to yesterday.
The regularity of sightings this week would suggest a small number are
currently resident there. (F Solly)
Wednesday 12th September
2007 Western Undercliff Ramsgate
A lunchtime breeze along the
Western Undercliff produced 2 Clouded Yellows. With Lots of Small
and Large Whites but just a singles of Red Admiral,
Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Painted Lady all in all, very,
very exciting. (F Solly)
Tuesday 11th September 2007 Fisherman's Carpark
to Coldharbour
From the fisherman carpark heading down the track to
the railway crossing I encountered Small Whites, Red Admirals Holly
Blues, Common Darters, and Migrant Hawkers following the track
that leads from Chambers wall Coldharbour, On my arrival at the
seawall I was pleasantly surprised to find 2 Common Weasels in
playful mood with each other this lasted long enough for me to photograph
them. (Gadget)
Sunday 9th September 2007 Seaton Pits
On the non-avian front it was a particularly good
morning for confirming the presence of Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
which has always seemed quite sparsely distributed; today it showed the best
fruiting I can ever remember and that made it all the easier to see. (Norman
M)
Saturday 8th September 2007 Kingsgate Thanet
A record year for recording Ivy Broomrape at
Kingsgate with several hundred spikes during the course of the summer, and a
number of which are still flowering. Also in the Kingsgate area, Calamint,
which is becoming very scarce on Thanet, as it doesn’t like concrete? (F
Solly)
Sunday 2nd
September 2007 Oare Marshes KWT
Good numbers of
butterflies and dragonflies around the tracks of this fabulous reserve.
Being common species, I didn't take much notice of the insects, until I
found a Roesel's Bush-cricket
on the road by the car park. (Dylan
Saturday 1st September 2007 Kingsgate area Thanet
Autumn Ladies Tresses are flowering at a number of locations in the
Kingsgate area, including several hundred on the lawn of Kingsgate Castle,
although normally also several hundred at the moth trap site only in the
low teens this year. (F Solly)
Saturday 1st September
2007 Dumpton Thanet
Tidying the garden this morning I notice a good number of Garden
Spiders (Araneus diadematus), best known of all the
orb-web spiders, just 3 Small White Butterflies a few Bees
and Wasps on the flowers and one very tatty Common Darter over the
pound. (Gadget)
