West Penwith, August

Only just got around to sorting out the photos from a superb 10 day visit to West Cornwall at the end of August. We normally go to Sennen in late October but for various reasons ended up going around the summer bank holiday. An excellent week with lots of walking, some surfing and a fair bit of rock climbing plus of course plenty of wildlife.

A good series of Basking Shark records, a couple of Sunfish and good seabird passage, with quite a few Storm Petrels, Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters.

Orthoptera

Roesel's Bush-cricket Metrioptera roeseli


Grey Bush-cricket Platycleis albopunctata


Speckled Bush-cricket Leptophyes punctatissima


Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus


Lepidoptera

Yellow Shell Camptogramma bilineata


Prausta despicata



Grayling Hipparchia semele


Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas


Wall Lasiommata megera


Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria


Fox Moth Macrothylacia rubi, larva


Emperor Moth Saturnia pavonia, larva


Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua, larva


Other insects and arachnids

Bristletail


Rose Chafer Cetonia aurata



Harvestman eating grasshopper


Herps

Common Toad Bufo bufo


Common Lizard Lacerta vivipara


Odonata

Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo


Golden-ringed Dragonfly Cordulegaster boltonii




Birds

Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax


Jackdaw Corvus monedula, eating Slow worm



Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus


Stonechat Saxicola rubicola, juvenile


Fish

Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus