La Marseillaise - French National Anthem

After the unexpectedly busy start to yesterday the rest of the day continued at a steady pace. The Moth Traps had caused something of a delay but more than worth it now we have confirmation of identities. Our mentor reports that this is not in fact Mottled Umber as stated but the much more uncommon

 SCARCE UMBER*
Status of 'Scarce Umber' in Dorset Link 

 while this is in fact as thought the

WINTER MOTH*

Both of these creatures are additions to the Parley

Moth List which now puts us just a single species

short of the 200 of this first and shortened year.

 The Micro is Crocidosema plebejana,

thought to have no connection to any member of the 

Police Force in Downing Street.

 and what do you make of this?

All will be revealed at the end of the Post.

The drive to Heathrow Airport was without incident and having 'checked in' online it was directly to the

BRITISH AIRWAYS HOSPITALITY LOUNGE

 for a snack and glass of wine.

 The design of TERMINAL 5 is quite remarkable with huge

support beams an

 Panoramic Widows across the Tarmac.

In 1 hour and 20 minutes we were in

 picking up the hire car for the 2 hours drive to

LEMBEYE
and one of Hugh's favourite restaurants the
LE TOUR

Settling down to a glass of local wine produced just down the road.

Pâté de Foie de Canard
came next and staying with the Duck theme

Confit de Canard
both one of my real favourites.

 Eventually, and under cover of dark, we arrived at our destination village of

to be greeted by our first bird, a distant and vocal

TAWNY OWL.

This morning VESTAL was on the doormat and

 what again looks like 

WINTER MOTH

high on one of the external walls.

 We spent most of the rest of the day cruising around the countryside

simply seeing what we could see. At the local reservoir we found

c2 GREAT WHITE EGRET and half a dozen CORMORANT.

 During the day we sighted c7

BLACK REDSTART

with this adult male being the best.

 A LIZARD on a roadside wall was in company with c4 of the

 BLACK REDSTART

 We were surprised to see 'thousands' of hectare of

MAIZE

still not harvested so late in the year.

 While work is most definitely in progress there is still

 much to be done and nearly everywhere we went

there were signs of harvesting.

The Post may seem a little on the short side but our day was full

and we are both very much looking forward to another wander

around this excellent part of the world DEMAIN - OUI!

Almost a Frenchman.

The mystery picture is a cloud formation through which the setting sun is shining and was taken through the starboard window about half way to Toulouse.

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