Living in a Box - 1985

 We wouldn't go as far as to say a good start to the day with not a single Macro Moth added to the Year List these MICRO

BOX WORM MOTHs

will have to substitute until the 'PROPER' ones start streaming in again!
Despite the lack of a really good start this was soon redressed as finding our

Home Bred

SWALLOWs

are now

On the Wing

and look raring to go!

But on a 'major down-side' this juvenile

GREEN WOODPECKER
fell to carelessly disguarded netting, just for want of a little care!!!!

In the main Solar Panel Compoud as small a

RABBIT
as you could wish for, about the size of a 'cooking apple' and followed by more

MEADOW

PIPITs

with 'tiny' Lambs

which still don't seem to be growing.

At the Irrigation Pond at first c2 new

MOORHEN CHICKs

then c3 and eventually a

QUARTET
with the 'clear and present danger' of

GREY HERON
almost within 'neck-streching' range.
Again, another far more obliging

RED ADMIRAL
along with a

SMALL COPPER
(butterfly)

If You Go Down to the Woods Today

 After adding

THE CLAY
to the Moth Year List

and then finding that The / A

juvenile

LAPWING
had returned to the now scalped Solar Panel Compound and very little else, it was worth scaling the North Face of the Party Gate and trying our luck on the Heath.

GATEKEEPER BUTTERFLY
was first to show but not in any numbers just yet, while the differing areas such as the

BRISTLE BENT

the flowering

HEATHER
and even the invasive

FERNS
made for an eye-catching tapestry until happening upon this juvenile

STONECHAT

already looking adept at hunting skills much to the chagrin of the hapless
GRASSHOPPER.
A number of f.f.y.

MARBLED WHITE BUTTERFLIES
also graced the Heath.

while under the

REPTILE COVERS

with under one cover a

DOUBLE-HEADER

and a total count of 7 in all.
and of course the almost mandatory

BLACK ANT COLLONY

Also on the gentle breeze the wiff of

EVENING PRIMROSE
once grown on the other side of the gate as a
Cash Crop.
Across the Wooded Rides

several dozens each of
(male)

and female
BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

and simalarly
(male)

(and female)
BANDED DEMEOISELLE
while bringing up the rear-guard just a single

BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLY
(more maybe tomorrow)

Harry Lime - Again

 A glorious

MACKEREL SKY
heralded the new day while a number of First for the Year Moths had been deposited into the traps.

DUSKY BROCADE

CREAM WAVE
and

BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

while at both pond the situation darkens as mostly
GREATER REED MACE

masking our veiw

of the remaining

LITTLE GREBE FAMILY

but there may have been others??

The rest of the Post is more or less given over to Plant Life with the

SAINT JOHN'S WORT
in fine display with the

first

TEASELs
pushing through and

more evidence that there might just be a crop of

ACORNS
this Autumn while again we are reluctant to let the nest building

SWALLOW
pass without a click or a clip, with the same applying to an

oscillating

LIME HAWK-MOTH
while closer to home we note the

RASPBERRIES
are ripening nicely so let

'scrumping' season begin!

FUNGI
right outside the door!