Wednesday 11 November 2020

Airport - The Motors

 Another night that proved to be ideal as far as your average Moth’er and the time of year were concerned, with a temperature of +14°C, not a raindrop or even light zephyr in sight and all the cloud cover you could wish for! The result showed a 'first for year'

DECEMBER MOTH
bringing the 2020 total of Macro Species to 389.
ANGLE SHADES
another
LARGE WAINSCOT
along with our 56th, and pointing towards a healthy colony of
MERVILLE du JOUR and a
Fine Pair as Pink Floyd might say of 
FEATHERED THORN. 

In addition to that we have often pondered just how many of you must have sat there day after day wondering what a 'gaggle' of c17

MINATOR and DOR BEETLEs in a Glass Pudding Basin must look like?
We are Only Here to Please and knew we would capture your imagination one way or the other!
During the process of clearing the 2 homeward traps we caught the chirruping of c2 in flight
TREE SPARROWs
which made for the 'wildlife' scarcity of the day!
The common denominators as far as this welcome visitor here is concerned is that they have been recorded annually, always in the Autumn and in c2's and have yet to be capture on film here.
Images c2018 Loch of Strathbeg, Aberdeenshire.
SLIPSTREAM
With very little else in the Wildlife department to catch the imagination we spent some time staring into
Bournemouth International Airport Territory
where, on the day, it seemed more like Heathrow!
Managing to get a slightly better profile of the now very active
AIRBUS
While there has been a shift around of the 'laid-up' aircraft on the pan
Cargo Carrying
continues
apace!
DIAMOND STAR
(Pilot Training Aircraft)
followed by a good look at the
undercarrage of the
COASTGUARD HELICOPTER
A Catchy Pop Song We Think