Robbery, Assult and Battery - Genesis

 The thing about seeing a'first for year'

JERSEY TIGER MOTH
through the perspex collar of the first trap as the first Insect is that, under these fairly lacklustre

conditions, it ain't going to get much better? By comparison the best from the Heath Traps

AUGUST THORN

also new for the year was no less welcome.

This tiny orange coloured SLUG

was also of interest even though we cannot

put a name to it nor can we to this mighty beast which could be a

BLACK CLOCK BEETLE
from our investigations and if so a first sighting ever.
(the queue is already and quite rightly forming to correct us)

All else from the traps were this pair of

FOUR-SPOTTED FOOTMAN
(female uppermost) only our second and third this year.

Otherwise, from within the Solar Panel Compound

the greatest surprise of the month this
MISTLE THRUSH

seeming feeding this youngster with all the others having dispursed days ago!
Along the Bracken line away from the Heath these

ROBBER FLIES
were caught in the act of procreating.

The juvenile theme continued further on watching this

SKYLARK

fall to the ground to

attend young.
A brief encounter with the Rare Breed

OLD ENGLISH WHITE STEER
was as rare as the animal itself as having been move to the Satelite Heath usually blocked from view.

and finally, there was a time but not in recent years

we would have welcomed the climb as well!

Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers - Part II

Compared to previous days, a bit of a brighter start as we plucked

LEAST YELLOW UNDERWING

and

SQUARE-SPOT RUSTIC

from the depths of the traps and while not overley eye-catching both were destined for the
Year List!
After a Brief Encounter with a juvenile hen

PHEASANT
we headed for the Sewerage works where all that was found

was a welcome bunch of returning

BLACK-HEADED GULLs
most likely from Poole harbour in the south than anything to do with
EXODUS.

A brief stop to take in the blue-blooms of our first

CHICORY
of the year which will certainly not be the last of this common plant.

Within the Solar Panel Compound the temporary residents

a couple of

WHEATEAR

heading in the direction of the

EQUATOR

but not before 'bunkering'

on the ready and ample supply of Invertibrates across this rich pasture!

With little else to keep us we wandered down to the
Maize Fields

but more to investigate what the 'subsiduary crop' might be?

No difficulty in identifying
PUMPKIN
which we are given to believe are for the Halloween Market?
There's Always Tomorrow - 'Cus Here Comes the Sun!

Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers - Part I

 It was about due but yesterday saw the first of the expected movement, of Birds, southwards. With a decent few images it might be prudent to treat each species of Bird individually with some other well placed Wildlife as punctuation. At the Moth Traps there was much to see but only a single species being added to the Year List in the form of a single

SMALL WAINSCOT

with a resurgence, by way of a second generation of close cousins

COMMON WAINSCOT
(bet that has brightened your day??)

along with

STENICHNUUMON MILITARIUS
along with a number of

RED-LEGGED SHIELDBUGS
As we highlighted with the last largeish movement of

SWALLOWs,

particularly juveniles, we only usually see a single wave but while numbers were much lower than the first the count was of but 8 individuals

including a single

parent bird.

For punctuation

 COMMON TOADFLAX

Takes some thinking about this flying south.

MEADOW BROWN

and there's more

along with possible

MINER BEE

excavations on the Heath.

See You Next Year!