August generally seems to be a quiet month. Altrhough waders are moving through we don't get a vast number here, and with many birds in moult and not singing things seem, well, quiet 🤷♂️
Butterflies don't make much noise and there are a few on the wing! All 3 common whites are about along with plenty of Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Peacock, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Gatekeeper and Common Blue. I thought I had a Brown Argus on KP the other day but of course it was a female Common Blue.
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| Female Common Blue butterfly |
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| Painted Lady |
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The barley field behind our house has been cut and the wildlife can be seen a bit better from our bedroom window now. A couple of foxes were mooching around the straw piles:
The numbers of Little Gull flying in and out from the Mere is gradually increasing, with a max of about 600 seen at any one time. A few can be seen on the jetties at KP in the morning...
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| Little Gulls on KP jetties |
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| Little Gulls on KP jetties |
Little Egret numbers at the Mere have also been increasing slowly with up to 5 also seen down Stream Dyke.
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| Little Egret feeding down Stream Dyke |
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| Little Egret feeding down Stream Dyke |
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| Minnows in Stream Dyke - food for the Egrets |
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| Minnows |
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| Minnow close-up |
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There are hundreds of Minnows at the moment in Stream Dyke. We used to catch small fish like this (tiddlers we called them) in the local canal when I was a lad.
I've seen Sticklebacks in Stream Dyke in the past but haven't seen any for a few years. This photo was taken in 2013:
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| Sticklebacks in Stream Dyke June 2013 |
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