Gorse Flat-body and Kestrel with lizard

Iping Common was at its best today, though the wind was strong and cold at times. A Kestrel soared over the valley and returned to the same area many times. It dived and captured a lizard. I saw a Great Grey Shrike twice in its usual valley and rescued a micromoth from a puddle. I later identified it as a Gorse Flat-body whose food plant is Gorse – plenty of that around.

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BA flight

Buzzard, Buteo buteo and Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus 

Chinook

Common Earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris
shot with camera phone (Moto G 2nd gen)

Gorse Flat-body, Agonopterix umbellana

Gorse, Ulex europaeus

Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor

scenics shot with camera phone

Kestrel with lizard, Falco tinnunculus

Kestrel

selfie :)

Spring buds