The Bagsy Blog: Watcher of the Skies

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Watcher of the Skies - Genesis

Another fairly quiet day at the farm with a mix of cloudy sky with patches of blue, still a fresh breeze and another drop in temperature, however there was a bonus before daybreak -

a short burst of the predicted

PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER

Photo NG not mine.

A large HORNET? in the trap this morning,

or is it a HOVERFLY?

In fact it's a bit of both, a

HORNET MIMIC HOVERFLY.

MAGPIE MOTH

and a rather attractive MICRO.

Having travelled to every country of South and Central America it is probably not surprising that I have eaten Llama, Vicuna, Guanacos and Alpaca (my favourite), and am well aware of the value of their 'wool', I have never seen one ;sheared' until today. All part of the 'taking it easy' campaign, I was taken by my new found friend Adrian (Mr Invaluable on the Farm) to witness his 3 Alpaca being shorn. The rest is simply a pictorial!