Thursday 15 April 2021

Those Were the Days (My Friends) - Mary Hopkin

 By no means alone in all of this, the only real restriction Covid 19 has put upon me personally is having missed the occasional visits from my Mentors and Apprentices alike. No longer able to invite such luminaries as

Doctor Moth himself Phil Stiling (right) with brother Mike
 and the older of my own 4 apprecices
Chloe
Dave Foot
without whose undying help we would never have gotten back into the saddle
and with a little favouritism the 3 (one missing)
Mason Children

who never flinched when first having a Moth placed on their hands and marveling at the the likes of

ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
Back to the day and best among another poor haul at the traps were repeats of
BRINDLED PUG
RED CHESTNUT
along with a
EARLY TOOTH-STRIPED
Following what over the last few month has become the way of things we again wandered off to
Longham Lakes and talk about Right Time, Right Place the sky was full of Hirundines with
most numerous being
SAND MARTIN
difficult to estimate number but to be at least 1,000 with the next being
SWALLOW
maybe a couple of hundred or more and already seen this year and finally among the
meleƩ just a lone
HOUSE MARTIN
and additionally there was no more than a light sprikling of 'reed bound'
SEDGE WARBLER
and
close cousins
REEDWARBLER
all chittering away
in an effort to claim the hand of a
Fair Maiden
and in addition to a lovely clump of
BLUEBELLs