Friday 12 September 2014

Good-Good-Good, Good Migration - The Beach Boys

Think it might be 'VIBRATIONS' really?
Still the night time temperatures are low, still the sky is clear, still the Moon is best part full and still there are very few Moths - Moan, Moan, Moan, Moan, Moan - feel much better now! Bit of a joke really as we are still pulling in one or two interesting items such as
CYPRESS PUG*
 which was an addition to the PCF List
 with
OAK HOOK-TIP
and
BARRED HOOK-TIP* (top)
which must have slipped through my net as it also is an addition to the
PCF List
another
YELLOW BELLE
a return of the long time absent
SMALL RUFOUS
while in my view best of all was this
SCORPION FLY
identified for me by who else but
John Gifford
While we ain't talking Wildebeest stampeding across the Veldt, we have been a little remiss in recent days bringing you up to date with what few Birds we have seen heading south on migration. After the Pied Flycatcher and Tree Sparrow, several days ago now, we have had a sprinkling of less familiar garden birds. Over the weekend my attention was drawn to a well known sound but one that is not at all usual throughout the south section of PCF. A
 MISTLE THRUSH
 among a throng of Starlings in the garden Pine Trees
 was in fact in company with
c3 others. A common breeding bird in the northern half of the property, it would seem by the c11 seen together the week before that there has been a good degree of success this year. Not alone in that there was also the plaintive zi-zi-zi of
 GOLDCREST
from the same trees.
 A 'hunting'
 SPOTTED FLYCATCHER
was found close by, but interest in that was short lived as
a bright little Warbler was also spotted.
 Like the above
 WOOD WARBLER
was an addition to the PCF List.
 Like the proverbial Bus another
 Spot-Fly was soon in the lens but it was a foggy early Saturday morning
that brought the next arrivals.
While not seen through the low visibility both
 TREE PIPIT
and
 YELLOW WAGTAIL
betrayed their presence by 'call'.
Along with the Osprey on Sunday and Tuesday, c2 high-flying and Fly-catching

MEDITERRANEAN GULLs
traversed PCF airspace.
Note:- some of the Bird images above are from the archive.
Other than that a suspected Hedgehog has been leaving small deposits on the Harbins lawn, and when returning next morning to check the traps I found not only the bread and milk bait missing but the container as well. Maybe its entertaining this weekend.
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