Hope Gap and Ouse Estuary

Clear skies this morning demanded another hunt for the Clouded Yellow and other butterflies. 

First stop was Hope Gap where I found the same Clouded Yellow as Wednesday, this time west of the gap.

there were a few Whinchats

and other things of the air

Clustered Bellflower Campanula glomerata

Goldfinch

Musk Mallow  Malva mosschata

Scarlet Pimpernel  anagallis arvensis

I then called in on Aunt Bea in Eastbourne for a cuppa and brought back goodies for Sue and me.  On the way back I called in at the Ouse Estuary Reserve at Newhaven. 

This time I found a Common Blue and Small Copper in the ditch surrounding the east side.

Common Blue

Small Copper

Common Evening Primrose Oenthera biennis