The village is teeming with wildlife. Trees are in their prime. Spring flowers are past their best and replaced by summer flowers. On the Downland slopes Small scabious, Clustered bellflower, Dyer’s greenweed, Viper’s bugloss, Common Rock-rose, and Yellow-wort are appearing. A common site is the Six-spot burnet moth adorning its black wings which set off the six bright red dots. These are often focused on the tall stems of the striking Viper’s bugloss, a photographer’s dream.
Small blues join Common and Adonis blues. So tiny, that the observer can not mistake it for anything else. Perhaps one of most abundant butterflies around Lulworth is the territorial Wall butterfly, more attractive than the name conjures up in the mind. We can not write about butterflies without mentioning the Lulworth Skipper sightings, caught on camera at Dungy Head by our survey team with its sun-ray wing pattern.
Swifts join Swallows and House Martins diving for insects in the sky. Quite often a loud screech can be heard before they are seen.
Clustered bellflower is the pick of the month, exactly as the name suggests; a cluster of bells. It is deep purple in colour, so hard to miss even though sometimes stunted in growth.
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