Thursday 20 November 2014

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Waking on Tuesday morning there seemed to be serious reason for concern, had I gone deaf? Opening the door to the sound of birdsong and the realisation it was not deafening, the reason was there was no clatter of raindrops on the roof this morning!
A great sight at Harbins first thing, but not a lot in the traps.
Which reminds me there is a confession to be made.
The Insect described as Turnip Moth on our last Post was nothing of the sort,
but it seems I have been forgiven by the Mothing Fraternity for making such a mistake.
It is in fact a
SMALL SQUARE-SPOT
which should have stopped occurring about 2 months ago.
Never one to baulk at being put right by my peers, along with this
correction came something of a 'spoonful of sugar'.
As things stand, this is the latest, by a Royal Mile, that this Moth
has ever been recorded in the County and as such is something of a milestone.
Question is, has it EVER been recorded in the month of NOVEMBER?
The appropriate amendment has been made to the Post.
All else caught were both
DROANFLY
and
FLESHFLY
Time for a wander and already Redwing are a daily sighting with
Fieldfare not far behind.
GOLDCREST 
are fairly numerous at all locations and there is still some Fungi to be seen.
XYLARIA HYPOXLON
also more familiarly known as
Candle Fungi
Up close to Merritown Heath
MISTLE THRUSH
were about in good numbers and the
ASPENS
now completely devoid of leaves looked a little stark.
(They're up there waiting Dave!)
Very obliging
LONG-TAILED TITs
among the
ROSE HIPS
made for the best images of the day but there was still more to see.
RAZOR STROP FUNGI
on
Silver Birch
RUSSULA AQUOSA
BLOOMING GORSE
as it does, somewhere or other, during 'every' month of the year
and a Cock
PHEASANT 
looking resplendent in the sun regardless of the 'cover'.
On the way back I once again encountered
CHRIS SUGDEN
someone I am happy to meet at anytime.
He imparts so much knowledge and tells me he should be here for a while yet.
The German company GOLDBECK, who have undertaken the construction of Phase II of the Solar Panel Farm, feel as a company very much aware of nature that they need to leave something of an inheritance on completion of such a project. They have indeed done that with the (approx) 2 miles of 3 tier hedgerows and they tell me there are one or 2 other things to come. That is why Chris is here and will hopefully give some ideas about the Irrigation Pond.
I have past this overgrown 'heap' many times during my wanders
but was only today that it was learnt that it is said to be a
TUMULI
(maybe) Iron Age Burial Chamber?
At this point I was invited by Construction Manager to have a walk
inside the locked areas to see at close hand the works that have been done.
Row upon row of Panels
each with a pair of Sun Sensors
which transmit data, via these
TRANSFORMERS,
to each individual
WEATHER STATION
Already looking forward to hooking-up with Chris again later in the
week as he has something else to show me.
We're all in the dark until then!
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