Friday 21 August 2015

Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel

It really doesn't matter what time you get up in the morning to tend the Moth Traps, sure as eggs is eggs the Birds will be there before you. Here, its mainly House Sparrow
 and this opportunistic, perched this morning on the Moth Table,
 ROBIN
but there was another discovery to report from the early hours.
The existence of
 BALSAM CARPET
has been well documented through these pages since it was first discovered
here at Parley Court Farm in 2014, with all but one of the Insects coming 
from the Stable Trap. No we don't have an 'Unstable' Trap!
Collecting the Garden Trap this morning a chink of colour caught my eye
 and looking a little closer noticed this healthy growth of
ORANGE BALSAM
close to the Ornimental pond.
No wonder then, as this is the food plant, that the 'second, or summer brood'
Balsam Carpet (shown above) was secured here.
A little more interest and variety in the traps this morning with the
 rather lethargic and almost Slug-like, but nonetheless attractive,
 LEOPARD MOTH
taking centre stage.
 CURRENT PUG
 Absent for a week or two now
 PALE MOTTLED WILLOW
 DARK GIANT HORSEFLY
 TABANUS SUDETICUS
GIANT DIVING BEETLE
bringing up the remainder of the interest.


 There isn't a lot of
GREATER REED MACE
on the property so, on the way to Merritown this morning, it was thought
worth a stop as the 'poker-like' heads are now mature.
We have been waiting for a good moment to show 2 trees which flourish
either side of the Merritown Heath Gate.
 On the left an
APPLE TREE
beneficial to both Humans and Cattle alike. The bovines have already
been tucking in, but still a little tart to the palate for me.
 Always worth a though that this tree might just have been planted by
a member of the Armed Forces (most likely Royal Air Force)
during the Second World War?
 To the right is an
ALDER BUCKTHORN
 now bearing an abundance of berries. While only a few have as yet ripened
to a deep dark purple/black the local female Blackcap is already being selective
along with Dunnock, Song Thrush and a few Tits.
 No chasing across the open Heath swinging a net for this little fella.
 No, this immature female
LONG-WINGED CONEHEAD
 simply hopped into the St-Range Rover most obligingly.
 One of the Hebeloma Species of Fungi which is thought to be
 RADICOSUM
 We found this pair of
RUDDY DARTER
copulating on the hard-standing close to the Airport after which
c2 Slow Worm were found before taking a look at what effect the
recent heavy rains have had on the newly dug Balancing Ponds at the other side of the fence.
 In a word
FLOODED
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