September 2025

Exactly 2 weeks since my last walk on the Downs. My wife and I have been away for a while ...

A last bit of summery weather today, with an almost cloudless sky and the temperature already pushing 20° by 10:00 ...

Overcast and quite windy, neither great weather for insects nor photography. Nevertheless, I did manage a photo of another Parent ...

The temperature dipping, with the first single digit overnight temperature of the autumn. ZERO butterflies, but… Something much more interesting ...

Butterfly numbers continue to be counted on one hand with 2 Small Copper, a single male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), ...

Exactly 2 butterflies today, both Speckled Wood. I added a new spider, the Common Sun-jumper (Heliophanus flavipes), on one of ...

A very heavy dew this morning after an early mist. A distinct autumnal feel and look about the Downs today ...

Maybe the butterfly season is now officially closed. ZERO count this morning. With the area of the old sheep enclosure ...