RXwildlife Sightings

The vewpoint produced the best highlights this morning with 7 Swallow and 2 Sand Martin which passed overhead, aslo of interest there a male Kestrel was busy catching  earthworms in the nearby fields and returning to eat them on a gate post. Two Marsh Harrier and a Peregrine showed well inflight at the northern end of the main pit.

The aptly named Shoulder Stripe is an early spring moth (in the same genus as the equally attractive Streamer) of dog rose and other wild roses, more likely in hedgerows and scrub than in gardens. Even after two years’ regular trapping here in Rye, it’s another new species for my garden.