Friday 1 November 2013

Heyshott Brimstone and a Ratty

Water Vole, Arvicola amphibius
Wednesday started with the weekly Heyshott work party. We have almost completed the clearance of the bowl which looks very neat and will hopefully attract a female Duke of Burgundy from the nearby colony next year. We saw a male and a female Brimstone during this sunny morning. The female landed at the base of a beach hedge. We marked where it had walked into the leaf cover but couldn’t find it later. The male landed on a leaf and posed well. On the way home I stopped at Burton Mill lake and enjoyed the view. Then I called in at Arundel WWT and came across a Water Vole feeding by the pond at the end of the Reed Bed walk near the bird feeders.
Arundel WWT:
view from the Sand Martin hide
Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus



Burton Mill Lake:



Large-flowered Evening-primrose, Oenothera glazioviana
Heyshott escarpment:
Brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni
Brimstone in situ
Neil with rake



The bowl after clearance
The bowl after clearance
Holly, Ilex aquifolium
Holly, Ilex aquifolium
Arundel WWT:
Coot, Fulica atra
Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos
Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
Mute Swan, Cygnus olor


Mute Swan, Cygnus olor
Nene (Hawaiian Goose), Branta sandvicensis

Water Vole, Arvicola amphibius


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