Things are pretty quiet at the moment but a quick walk along
the river this evening turned up Little Egret, Little Grebe, three
Kingfishers, this family of Swans (the first Mutes since early
May),
a couple of Buzzards and still half a dozen Speckled Wood butterflies.
Yesterday evening in the Magic Garden there were three
Little Owls. As I walked back home four Pipistrelles were feeding around the
trees at the top of Warlaby Lane. More surprisingly, given the sharp drop in
temperature, I saw a couple of Red Admirals flying high south.
This reminded me of a birding trip to northern Finland some
years ago. We were walking on the frozen sea when I spotted a distant movement,
it turned out to be the incongruous sight of dozens of Camberwell Beauty
butterflies migrating over the ice.
Parish year list to end of September - 107 species.
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