Loving Every Minute - Lighthouse Family

A couple of 'catch-up' identifications from yesterday's Post with thanks to Martin Cade, Janet Read and John Gifford, both Insects are from Parley Court Farm and welcome additions to the Property List.

 PEARLY UNDERWING*

Best Bet at this time is
WESTERN CONIFER SEED BUG

A recent addition to the Great Britain Fauna List first found at
Weymouth Collage by our friend and local Wildlifer
Bob Ford - Photo Library 

GUELDER ROSE
not Field Maple as suggested.

A stiff sou'-easterly overnight breeze heralded my arrival which brought in a fair amount of heavy rain for the morning and backed into the east later in the day, Setting the Moth Trap in Secret's Garden at Sweethill allows for the best of both worlds, my own first then the 6 run each night at the

The Old Lower Light

aka Portland Bird Observatory
another 'first for me as I have never slept in a Lighthouse before.

The best from mine were

FEATHERED BRINDLE

and

FEATHERED RANUNCULUS

and at the Obs

BEAUTIFUL GOTHIC

From the traps it was straight on to the birds and just for once I

seem to have made the right call. With only a single medium-size

Wader (at great distance) at Ferry Bridge the area was by-passed

until later. Continuing on to the Caravan Camp at Littlesea all that

was added to the list were

c114 BRENT GEESE

so back to the BRIDGE.

At a distance this

PIED WAGTAIL

made for a nice picture if nothing else. Given the tide, the water

not pushing right up to the Visitors Centre, gave great opportunity

to view all the Waders present at fairly close quarters.

TURNSTONE

totalled 23

while there were

c6 BAR-TAILED GODWIT
as shown on
Portland Bird Obs - Latest News 

in excess of 50 DUNLIN

and RINGED PLOVER

SANDERLING totalled c3

as did GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

Otherwise there were just singles of

MEDITERRANEAN GULL

and

RED KNOT
which was the most obliging bird of all.

Others added during the day included Collared Dove, Starling, Oystercatcher, House Sparrow and Lesser Black-backed Gull. I may have missed a couple out but the Trip List now stands at 59. It should be pointed out we are one day in arrears, so today is yesterday!

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