*through* magic #chalkgrassland
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Remembering some of my favourite things on those warm summer days ..
🌟views though magic #chalkgrassland
🌟the loud chirping of #grasshoppers
🌟the sight of #SmallBlue marvels
🌟male #Yellowhammer singing
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Hail to the lovely #Dark-edgedBee-fly ..
here tucking into nectar provided by some early #Cowslips
in the #ChalkGrassland on the #Southdowns
#Insects #Nativeflora
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#Crows get a bad press sometimes and we forget how vital these clever corvids are & also how useful to us humans.
Here's a crow showing just how useful, vigorously muckspreading while feeding in the #chalkgrassland on the #SouthDowns.
#Crowsrock
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For millennia, #ChalkGrassland like Uffington, Barbary Castle and Old Sarum have commanded wide views across the landscape.
They were the sentinels of ancient Britain.
Today they may be playing a similar role again - quietly revealing how the climate itself is changing.
#WildClocks #UKNature
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On this cool-ish & breezy a/noon all the flying creatures along the #DykeApproach path were grabbing any nectar wherever they found it or sheltering/resting in the dry autumnal #chalkgrassland .. while the strip of woodland alongside looked Tolkien-esque through windows framed by #Traveller'sJoy
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My favourite hill was dressed in Blue today .. with a few other colours laced into the tapestry .. refreshed after the recent downpours.
Gave me that special September grin. 😊
#DevilsbitScabious
#chalkgrassland
#NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands given beck to her.
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What type of cocoon is this .. anyone? .. with what looks like an Earwig resting/hiding inside it?
Attached to Wild Marjoram in the #chalkgrassland along the #DykeApproach path yesterday, a breezy day on the #SouthDowns.
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The #bumblebees were out in force in the windy & cooler weather today, while the #butterflies were hunkering down low in the #chalkgrassland on the #SouthDowns.
Some, like #MeadowBrown (3) had crawled under the bent grass layer, proving to us humans we were not the 1st w the straw roofing idea 😜
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Stars of burnished gold feeding other stars:
⭐ One still feeding gems of Chalk Hill Blue
⭐ The other, now mostly spent but still a frequent roosting place for Common Blue
#CarlineThistle
#GreaterKnapweed seed-head
#butterflies #chalkgrassland in #Sussex
#wildflowerhour
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Female Brimstone hanging on to the Rough Hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus) in the brisk breeze yesterday.
#butterflies #botany #chalkgrassland #DevilsDyke
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Here's my offer for #ColourADay with almost a half of the theme #OrangeSun with Small Heath butterfly from #NewtimberHill
#butterflies in #chalkgrassland
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Female #Adonis, down in undergrowth on #NewtimberHill, probably mated, her eggs developing or looking for the foodplant, Horseshoe vetch, so to lay them under its tiny leaflets.
This #butterfly is strongly associated w old #chalkgrassland w #anthills.
Nature needs her chalk lands returned to her!
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Why are so many #Kestrel hovering & hunting over the #chalkgrassland & #scrub on #DevilsDyke & #NewtimberHill?
Because they are teeming with life from all kinds of #insects such as #crickets & #grasshoppers to #lizards & #smallmammals.
Nature needs far more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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An #Adonis male that has had a few near escapes feeding on #Eyebright & another so far un-pecked, feeding on #Round-headedRampion in the old #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill teeming with insects, birds, small mammals & Common lizards.
Nature needs far more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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#Silver-spottedSkipper thriving in the old #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill.
This lovely little skipper can only be found in certain suitable areas in the Chilterns, the North & South Downs and ONLY chalk grasslands.
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her.
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The last of this year's orchids.
Like a tiny spiral staircase reaching for the sky.
#Lady'sTresses common in the #chalkgrassland on #NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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#AdonisBlue male on #Devil's-bitScabious in the old #chalkgrassland at #Newtimberhill today.
#butterflies #botany
Nature needs more of the chalk lands returned to har!
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The last of the few bits of actual good #chalkgrassland in Dorset MUST be saved and allowed to flourish and ..
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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Among the shining stars of #GreaterKnapweed seed heads, the standouts of the many stalwart plants still feeding trillions in drought conditions, are still the #Ragwort and the #Blackknapweed.
#DykeApproach path along #chalkgrassland
Nature needs more of her chalk land returned to her!
📷🧵
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A reminder this morning as I was walking along the #DykeApproach path flanked by its late summer #chalkgrassland abuzz with insects, that it is always worth #lookingup 😊
#raptors #Redkite
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Meadow grasshoppers meeting .. difficult to avoid as the #chalkgrassland is teeming with all kinds of hoppers and crickets .. just below the Hoary Plantain & the Adonis Blue and Silver-spotted skipper butterflies.
#NewtimberHill
Nature needs more of her chalk lands returned to her!
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The star and the pot of gold ☀️
#CarlineThistle
in #chalkgrassland
in #Sussex
Species-rich Chalk grassland is rare compared to the vast acreage of nature-poor farmland even on chalk soils. We need to measures to change that and soon!
If we want to find more stars & pots of gold!
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Living close to the #SouthDowns gives me the opportunity to walk in #chalkgrassland & in August I often get to observe some stunning #butterflies.
On just a short walk around #Newtimberhill today Chalk Hill, Adonis & Common Blue were out in numbers but the star 4 me was #Silver-spottedSkipper ⭐🦋
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A beautiful sunken way @rowantnnr.bsky.social - an interesting historic feature, now stuffed with #chalkgrassland #flowers & #butterflies 🌸🦋
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Delighted to alight, this blowy, yet sultry eve, upon a colony of Marbled White butterflies, in a sheltered corner of Newmarket Warren Hill-Side Hill-New Ground gallops, among the clouds of Meadow Browns. Near the mighty 83m summit found a single Common Rockrose on this #chalkgrassland. #MyWalk 1/6
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Sore throat anyone?
This pretty member of Bedstraw family, #Squinancywort, growing in chalk grasslands, obtains it name from once used to treat Quinsy, bacterial infection of tonsils often following tonsillitis, no longer used as antibiotics is more appropriate they say🙄.
#chalkgrassland #plants
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