Chalkhill Blues, Small Copper, Adonis Blues and Clouded Yellow at Bockhill. Beautiful names for beautiful butterflies.

It is easy to ignore my local woods at this time of year but despite the quietness and heat this morning a Lesser spotted woodpecker - one of nearly twenty pairs I am watching in the Canterbury ring woods was calling continuously in North Bishopden wood. LesserSpot Network

Two Migrant hawker dragonflies and a Pipistrelle bat carving figure of eights like Scalextric cars on a track along my garden this evening.

Framing up flowers in matchboxes that are heading out to Australia.

Whitstable Kent (Garden) VC15 Clifden Nonpareil. In what seems a very good year for this Beauty it is still a thrill to have this pristine specimen appear last night NFG. KentMoths Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

My local Hobbies have been very active daily for the last month and must have young nearby. One of them was way out over the Swale this evening - for a second I thought it was a Peregrine or Arctic skua when it sent an incoming flock of twenty four Common terns into a panic.

Two late Swifts at Seasalter keeping that back to school feeling at bay.

1250 Black-tailed godwits, a Whinchat plus 70 Cormorants roosting on pylons at Seasalter.

A Peregrine, probably a juvenile was ‘playing’ with four Crows for ten minutes along the sea wall at Seasalter this evening. Stooping, attacking from above and below even knocking them off. The Crows seemed annoyed but not really bothered.

Newly hatched Moorhens chicks at Seasalter - probably a third brood.

26 very vocal Whimbrels at Seasalter. Such an evocative sound.

Guillemot a few feet off Westbeach Whitstable.

At least 480 ‘Comic’ terns and 2 late Little terns at Seasalter. 340 on mud at low tide and 140 offshore seasalter bird watcher Mike Gould

150 ‘Comic’ terns, 2 Little terns and the first returning Brent goose of the autumn at Seasalter.

8 Black terns with 35 ‘Comics’ at Seasalter. A Wheatear too.

Great-white egret at Seasalter.

Big numbers of birds in the mouth of the Swale off Seasalter. Those that put in the hours saw more than me but very happy to see 45 Arctic skuas, 3 Manx shearwaters, 20 Black, 20 Arctic and 9 Little terns, 3 Brent geese and Gannets. Wheatear, Hobby and Clouded Yellow too.

Ten minutes at Seasalter before the rain hit. Two Manx shearwaters east and an Arctic skua chasing Black-headed gulls right over the beach huts.

Fresh arrival of 90 Brent geese at Seasalter.

Feeling very autumnal in north Norfolk. Three Redwings in the wind and the skies are full of Pink-footed geese.