On Thursday 11.08.22 I walked from my house to Bevendean Down from my house. I arrived at Bevendean at 8.00 am and I walked back at home at 9.15 am.
Bevendean Down is a cluster of species-rich chalk grassland, scrub and woodland sites which have earned Local Nature Reserve (LNR) status and is in the South Downs National Park.
The sloping hills are home to many species of butterfly including the nationally scarce Adonis Blue, the rare Silver Spotted Skipper and a large population of Round-headed Rampion (otherwise known as the Pride of Sussex). Bevendean Down (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
A Great Tit in the trees by the steps that lead from Warren Road to Bevendean
A Herring Gull chick on the top of a factory in the Bevendean industrial estate
Bevendean Down Nature Reserve
Speckled Wood on bramble
Speckled Wood camouflaged
Gatekeeper
Juvenile (?) Greenfinch
Meadow Brown
Meadow Brown
Common Blue
Common Blue
Common Blue
Adonis Blue
Brown Argos
Female Common Blue
Speckled Wood
Common Blue
Female Common Blue
Speckled Wood
Small Heath
