Saturday 30 November 2013

La Marseillaise - French National Anthem

After the unexpectedly busy start to yesterday the rest of the day continued at a steady pace. The Moth Traps had caused something of a delay but more than worth it now we have confirmation of identities. Our mentor reports that this is not in fact Mottled Umber as stated but the much more uncommon
 while this is in fact as thought the
WINTER MOTH*
Both of these creatures are additions to the Parley
Moth List which now puts us just a single species
short of the 200 of this first and shortened year.
 The Micro is Crocidosema plebejana,
thought to have no connection to any member of the 
Police Force in Downing Street.
 and what do you make of this?
All will be revealed at the end of the Post.
The drive to Heathrow Airport was without incident and having 'checked in' online it was directly to the
BRITISH AIRWAYS HOSPITALITY LOUNGE
 for a snack and glass of wine.
 The design of TERMINAL 5 is quite remarkable with huge
support beams an
 Panoramic Widows across the Tarmac.
In 1 hour and 20 minutes we were in
 picking up the hire car for the 2 hours drive to
LEMBEYE
and one of Hugh's favourite restaurants the
LE TOUR
Settling down to a glass of local wine produced just down the road.
Pâté de Foie de Canard
came next and staying with the Duck theme
Confit de Canard
both one of my real favourites.
 Eventually, and under cover of dark, we arrived at our destination village of
to be greeted by our first bird, a distant and vocal
TAWNY OWL.
This morning VESTAL was on the doormat and
 what again looks like 
WINTER MOTH
high on one of the external walls.
 We spent most of the rest of the day cruising around the countryside
simply seeing what we could see. At the local reservoir we found
c2 GREAT WHITE EGRET and half a dozen CORMORANT.
 During the day we sighted c7
BLACK REDSTART
with this adult male being the best.
 A LIZARD on a roadside wall was in company with c4 of the
 BLACK REDSTART
 We were surprised to see 'thousands' of hectare of
MAIZE
still not harvested so late in the year.
 While work is most definitely in progress there is still
 much to be done and nearly everywhere we went
there were signs of harvesting.
The Post may seem a little on the short side but our day was full
and we are both very much looking forward to another wander
around this excellent part of the world DEMAIN - OUI!
Almost a Frenchman.
The mystery picture is a cloud formation through which the setting sun is shining and was taken through the starboard window about half way to Toulouse.
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