The day before visiting Rainham we went to a few other sites in Essex. We started in Epping Forest where we found some common lizards.
Along with some meadow grasshoppers.
This one started stridulating..
There were loads of migrant hawker dragonflies hunting over the scrub and heath, but none posed for photos.
We then moved on to Cornhill meadows dragonfly sanctuary, where sadly there were not too many dragonflies. There were a number of banded demioselles over the river but none posed for photos.
I did however find this nursery web spider on her nursery web.
