A good day in Belstead Brook Park for Brown hairstreak- As well as rescuing 70 eggs ( including 6 doubles!) from habitat management works in Kiln meadow, we also discovered several ova in Bourne Park and Ostrich meadows BC Suffolk Branch Greenways Project

I think this is Yellow Rattle on my lawn. No wonder that Yorkshire Fog looks a bit poorly!

Recreational disturbance is also an increasing problem for New Forest Curlews. The image below shows a dog-walker throwing a tennis ball in a Curlew territory, with the dog bottom left and the flushed Curlew just visible in the bottom right. #WorldCurlewDay2022

2/4 - 28 Apr Visited Avon Heath Country Park and Sopley Common. Woodlark, Tree Pipit, Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Sundews, 2 male Sand Lizards (Lifer) and a Smooth Snake (Lifer). Which we were very lucky to see. Even managed to half decent pics of the reptiles.

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Silver Studded blues 🦋 now emerging in good numbers across suffolk, remember to keep to footpaths, pupae are vulnerable to trampling - one this AM at surface of ants nest 🐜

Landseer meadows proving popular with hawkmoths too- A heard of elephants 🐘 to light, as well as several feeding on Bugloss Mattgarnham90𓅓

Lasius niger 🐜 seem to be equally fond of small blue caterpillars, tending 4 on one Kidney flowerhead! , Are we sure they're cannibalistic?! @ukbutterflies BC Suffolk Branch

Nice to find a few Brown hairstreak eggs at Bourne park this morning, whilst working in the Reedbed David Walsh Greenways Project BC Suffolk Branch

Numbers of Marbled whites (70) meadow browns (100+) and skippers (1000's) just starting to pick up at Landseer Park today , as well as a few Brassy longhorn moths on scabious BC Suffolk Branch

Brilliant to see so many Swifts feeding over the wonderful insect-rich IpswichGov Landseer Park on an @IpswichRSPB walk thanks to Stephen M, 15 species of butterfly seen as well as Kestrel family & an unexpected Whitethroat singing away! SaveOurSuffolkSwifts Suffolk Bird Group BC Suffolk Branch

Out at Piper's Vale this week too!

Good views of Brown hairstreaks egg laying- today at Piper's Vale

Delighted to find this chunky Goat moth caterpillar emerging from a veteran oak tree at Orwell Country park Neil Sherman

Always nice to find the strongly symbiotic SSB larvae 🐛 , hidden amongst ant nests within the heather 🐜 BC Suffolk Branch

Well over 250 SSB at my local Urban heathland this year, in an area < half an acre. Shows what can be done when you understand the species life cycle/ ecology and manage the habitat accordingly ( egg laying sites, ant symbiosis, larval foodplants and nectar) . BC Suffolk Branch

Preparing for installation of 2 new 'bee friendly' planters at The Street, Rushmere for the Parish Council.Wide excavations around the planters have been filled with different inert aggregates to encourage wildflowers & low growth on the highway verge. East Suffolk Council IpswichGov

Sawmilling local oak in Landseer Park last week, to produce boardwalk planks - already in place in Belstead Brook Park. Great volunteers also helped make a bench and stag beetle pile using waste wood in Landseer. IpswichGov #volunteers # local timber

The start of some exciting new wetland management work in the Bourne Park reedbed - creating ponds, scrapes and linear features to increase habitat diversity and open up views into the reedbed. Funded by a grant from Suffolk CC Many thanks to all involved. IpswichGov #reedbed

During a successful search for larvae and pupae amongst the heather 🐛 🐜 , was not surprised to find a dozen SSB's already flying in Ipswich today, a fortnight ahead of schedule 🦋 BC Suffolk Branch