Wednesday 7 June 2017

Silver Machine - Hawkwind


To use the technical vernacular, the weather over recent nights has been
Up and Down like the Proverbial Fiddler's Elbow!
Firstly high winds followed by gentle zephyr, then heavy downpours
followed by silence from the farmers previously moaning about the lack of rain,
but most disturbing for us ‘ere Moth'ers has been overnight temperatures
travelling the glass from +17°C to a low of +6°C.
 However, there have been a few additions to the Year List.
 SYCAMORE
 BLOTCHED EMERALD
 PEARLY UNDERWING

 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
SILVER GROUND CARPET
Later in the day there was a strange sort of clattering coming from the bow section of the
Strange Rover
which was reason to visit the garage at the 
Industrial Estate which is part of Bournemouth International Airport. 
Luckily nothing more than a stone in one of the front wheels,
which they removed at 'no charge', and it gave opportunity to explore an area
that abuts our own Recording Area.
We chronicled the construction of this 'hanger size' workshop through these pages
but this is the first time we had ever seen the front and the name
ALTITUDE
The opposite view of the tributary
and the hard-standing on the Heath where we often
Stand and Stare!
BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL
WHITE BLUEBELLS
 Back to Base and a call from the Golf Club

saying that they had found an injured bird.
 This
BLACK-HEADED GULL
 did have a broken left wing
 but looked in too good a condition and very lively to simply kill it!
 Instead, it was committed to the
River Stour
with its fortunes not being known.
 You get used to aircraft noise being so near to the runway
 that you can often identify the aircraft on sound alone, but not this
 ROYAL NAVY HAWK JET
 which had done a 'dummy run' and alerted us to its presence, the sound being alien.

 SMALL TREE MALLOW
Our first
 SMALL HEATH BUTTERFLY
of the year and once again the Heath is covered in the
 lairs of
FUNNEL SPIDERS
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