Along the beach, despite all the fresh looking ragwort, bees were utilising the last few blooms on the almost expired plants of Vipers Bugloss. #wildflowerhour

Along the sea wall, bees and butterflies mostly using Bristly Oxtongue. #wildflowerhour

Oxford Ragwort, Common Stork's-bill and Sea Mayweed - the beach at South Swale looking really quite colourful in places. #wildflowerhour

Dead man's fingers, Alcyonium digitatum - hopefully. Had us puzzled a bit, but matches some Marlin photos and description of a young developing colony. Dead man's fingers is a colonial coral. Folkestone, Kent #shoresearch #coral

South Swale - winter flocks building great to see them back, Brent Goose, Widgon and plenty of waders around 2.5 hrs before high tide today. @Birdwisenk #birds #kent

South Swale outstanding for butterflies today given its October - 3 Small Copper (2 box fresh), 2 Clouded Yellow, 50+ Wall Brown (inc these two mating, with friend!), 4 Small White, 2 Common Blue, 1 Small Heath and a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. #Butterflies #insects #pollinators

Searching with Butterfly Conservation for caterpillar of Scarce Goldenrod Plume today in the Blean, very range restricted. Coleophora Sp, possibly Coleophora virgaureae, Goldenrod case-bearer. A big gang of Crossbills entertained us / frustrated the camera. #moths #birds #kent

Tree bumblebee queen searching out the last of a few Knapweed plants on a woodland ride last week. #wildflowerhour

Red Valarian from a nice sunny day on the shingle at Dungeness last week. #wildflowerhour

Looks like a waxcap and its blackening, wonder what it could be?! Hargate Forest, Tunbridge Wells - driven past the Southern edge so many times... #worldfugusday #fungi #woodlands

Will be interesting to see what people make of the Thamesmead project, probably be overwhelming support. Personally never been there, but these green areas on the Thames are a bit of a rarity, like the Swanscombe site in Kent.

Coleophora hydrolapathella - Water Dock Case-bearer. The larvae feed from a reddish brown tubular case made entirely of silk on flowers and seeds of Water Dock and recently found on Curled Dock (below). Seen Dungeness, fairly new site for the species. #wildwebswednesday #moths

2nd generation Heath Fritillary still flying at Clowes Wood in the Blean, four seen in a small area, and in great condition. These were around TR131637, bound to be more. #butterflies #insects @BCKentBranch @savebutterflies @KentWildlife @ForestryEngland

Sandwich Terns put on a good fishing display at Dungeness today, Gannets a bit distant. Small numbers of Brent Geese flying around. Plenty of small birds - Blackcap etc waiting to go, around Old lighthouse. Blobbed the Wryneck. @DungenessBO #birds #Migration

Late flowering yellow flowers keeping the bumblebees going at Cliffe Pools this week. An Oxtongue (possibly Hawkweed), Wall Rocket (probably Perennial), a Sow Thistle of some sort and Bristly Oxtongue. #wildflowerhour #bumblebees #pollinators

Fisher’s Estuarine - one of the highlights of the mothing calendar, good numbers seen yesterday on a good still night nr Reculver. Always check the Ivy too, bit of a magnet for moths at night - Clancy's Rustic and Rusty Dot Pearl and several others. #moths #insects #pollinators

Breezy afternoon at Cliffe Pools. Spotted at least 3 Shrill Carder (low number for this site), lots of Ivy Bees around. Wall Brown still going strong, but just the one Clouded Yellow seen. Been a dry Summer, don't think I've ever seen water levels so low. #Bees #butterflies

Inquisitive look from one of several Wheatear waiting to migrate South from Thorney Island. Seem to be everywhere on the Kent and Sussex coast at the moment. #birds #sussex

Thorney island resting spot, and pretty decent Sussex sunset yesterday evening. @MyFaveBench #Sussex #walking #sunset

Last day of Summer, on the Sussex chalk #wildflowerhour DB Scabious, Knapweeds and Eyebright