The Lyons Share

Sounds so much better than Ray and I. It's already on ITV Player. The wildlife and the Downs were looking great and I was pleased to see the specimen of the strange spider Gibbaranea gibbosa that I found that day on TV too.

I'm gonna be on Wild Britain with Ray Mears tonight at 8.00pm on ITV. We are looking at chalk-grassland, the Downs and Adonis Blues. I have not seen the show yet so I have no idea what to suspect, I can hardly remember filming it it was so long ago, way back in May. All I remember is it was very, very windy, wet and cold for May, hence the matching anoraks and grimaces. Strangely, during a break in filming, Ray showed me a cure for flatulence.

I've been filming with Ray Mears for Wild Britain today for ITV. The show is going to go out in the autumn and will look at chalk-grassland and the South Downs. I am not looking smug in the photo, I am squinting into a very biting wind. We looked at Southerham and Malling Down. A very windy and occasionally wet day sadly but we still saw plenty of Adonis Blues. It was a really exciting day and I learned a lot. I can't wait to see what it looks like but I am going to have to wait a long time before it's aired. I'll do a reminder post nearer to the time.

Prior to that I popped into Woods Mill, Penny and Alice put the trap out and I was glad to see a Nascia cilialis. This is perhaps the scarcest moth (Na) that occurs at Woods Mill and it has taken me three years to finally catch up with one. I end the day on 3376 species.