Tuesday 21 June 2022

Swallowtails at Catfield Fen & further hummer visits

On Sunday 19th June, I drove over to Catfield, heading for the church just south of the village down school road, past the school on the left and just past the Church on the right and then taking Fenside road (don't take Lodge road) until it became a drivable muddy track, past Hubbard Cottage & then past the beautiful Rose Cottage and parked by the deep water sign walking past the house on the left and forking right through the woods and walked out onto the Fen, immediately seeing a close Hobby, my belated first of the year, fly overhead. A Painted Lady was briefly on brambles on the right. Further down ultimately I saw up to 4 Swallowtails, the first a smaller immaculate one and then later a larger more normal size one frequently visiting the brambles but often in feeding flight so opportunities for photography were limited. A Sedge Warbler perched high up in the reeds briefly. Walking back another or the same Painted Lady seen too. Later on in the faternoon on our garden there were further Hummingbird Hawk Moth sightings on our Red Valeian in the garden at 4.30pm and 7.50pm both brief visits.

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