RXwildlife Sightings

I was shown a cricket which was potted off a residents window (Dave Bunney) last night at Dungeness Point. He had found a dead Oak Bush Cricket floating in his water butt a month back (first record for Dungeness) and so phoned me as he thought it was a Southern Oak Bush Cricket (Meconema meridionale) after looking on the internet and after I reminded him of this species spreading in the London area. I had a look and identified it to this species and took a fuzzy photo. Keep your eyes peeled for this species - which is a late species - especially with the warm weather this weekend.

I expected to see Viper’s Bugloss, Yellow Horned Poppy, Herb Robert, Red Valerian and Sticky Groundsel in flower today on the shingle, but our three rare species were also in bloom, providing the latest recorded dates here… Least Lettuce (below), Red-hempnettle and Stinking Hawk’s-beard.

Today is National Poetry Day. Click here for poem by John Davidson called In Romney Marsh