Ann Miles Blog

 We spent a couple of hours at Kingcombe Lodge before heading home and were rewarded with views of the Heron, a passing Hobby and up to...

 The Beautiful Demoiselles at Toller were mostly not yet fully mature but the brilliant blue of the male is beginning to show with the gre...

 Another session at Powerstock Common produced some great reptiles- Common Lizards including black form (juvenile) and a Slow worm (a le...

 Beautiful misty morning after rain overnight. Meadows looked magical with dew drops and cobwebs

 The Green Woodpecker chick at Studland put its head out every time the adult was in the area so I hoped for a feeding picture but we ...

Not a lot of wildlife to observe on Studland Heath. It is famous for reptiles though I only saw brief sightings of lizards, they are obvi...

 Our next stop was Kimmeridge Bay, famous for the flat rocks but these were covered as the tide was higher  than expected probably due to...

 Very strong winds were forecast so we went searching good rough sea pictures. Our first stop at Swanage proved to be an error for our ...

 Four butterflies from today - Green Hairstreak,Speckled Wood, Wood White and Marsh Fritillary, Three species of Orchid,  Greater  Butt...

 We went to try for more low-level photographs on Hobbies but only a couple seen very high in the sky. However, there were several small ...

 The wind was still pretty strong this morning so there wasn't much flying at Wicken Fen - the Male Sparrowhawk and the Swifts were...

 A few more birds from our visit to Lakenheath yesterday. The female Marsh Harriers were few in number -  presumably sitting on the nest ...