There's Gold in Them There Hills

 As the year gets shorter so the daily Moth List follows suit, but turn your back for just a moment

and you may miss the Goodie which in this instance was a

GOLDEN TWIN-SPOT
something of a 'scarcity' to say the least, needing a "little help from our friends", and cetainly only our second ever.
The total overnight catch was no more than 4 x 5 but not to be sniffed at with a back-up cast of another migrant in the form of a

COSMOPOLITAN
with the 'also-rans' amounting to just a couple of

TURNIP MOTH
(pale form)

(along with the more usual) 

 and a

DECEMBER MOTH

for good measure.

Up at the

Sewerage Works,
which forms the most northerly boundry of the Recording Area, it looks as if

CHIFFCHAFF/s

are already settling in for the bounty that comes from the wealth of Insects associated with the warmth from the plant (mechanical that is) over-winter while back at the Ponds the loan

COOT
remains in-situ taking our thoughts back to the pre-nesting

squabbles associated with that time of year,

blink and it will be with us again!
Additionally, there are still c3 (one just dived)

LITTLE GREBEs
thought to be of this years vintage along with both

parent

BIRDS