Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan

Amid cooling temperature and sporadic light rain last nights catch was much reduced, but fear not there were a couple of additions* to the Property Moth List

NUT-TREE TUSSOCK*

THE FAN-FOOT*
After monitoring the trap, much of the day was spent just wandering
around the farm see what could be found.

The various ponds around the property hold SCARCE CHASER L. fulva is scarce in Britain and is consequently listed under category 3 (scarce) in the British Red Data Book on Insects. The Scarce Chaser is restricted to 6 main localities in Norfolk/Suffolk, Sussex, Wiltshire/Somerset, Cambridgeshire, Kent and Dorset/Hampshire. Populations appear to be stable and there is evidence that suggests that it may be expanding its range. This was a late ammendment on information from those who put me right from time to time.

AZURE DAMSELFLIES

GREAT BURDOCK

with BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLY

COMMA BUTTERFLY

juvenile ROBIN
one of 'many dozen' hereabouts.

SIX-SPOT BURNET MOTH

A 'Blast From the Past' this
Hawker Siddeley TRIDENT Airliner
has been visiting Bournemouth International Airport
with some regularity today.

WATER LILY

LARGE SKIPPER BUTTERFLY

LONG-HORN BEETLE

PICKEREL WEED
an invasive water-side plant originally from the Americas

 PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE

WHITE-TAILED BUMBLE BEE

It was thought that this period (Summer) would, as ever, be quiet on the wildlife front but it seems to have been far from that. To help free up a little more time for me, I have asked my friends Sheila Edwards, John Gifford and Paul Harris to assist in some of the identifications associated with the Blog. Rather than post a 'credit' with every image it is simpler just to issue my blanket THANKS to each of them now!

and finally, we end on a sad note.
Long Association with Weymouth - Then Tragedy