Friday, 4 July 2014

Small - Portishead

If you are not familiar with the band who take their name from
their town of origin (close to Bristol), the try the track 'Gloryhole'.
and away from that an appropriate lyric might be
I'm as corny as Kansas in August
High as a flag on the Fourth of July
HAPPY HOLIDAY OVER THERE! 
It is often said that 'small is beautiful' and to endorse the point one needs only to take a glance at Moi. Further to that, and looking at today's catch from the Moth Traps, almost the first Insect on parade this morning was the delicate, small and thought 'localised'
 SMALL SCALLOP
A fine specimen in itself, and one I have never clapped eyes on
before, brought up the 300th species of Macro here at
Parley Court Farm.
If that were not enough just 20 minutes later and from another
trap came No. 301 in the shape of the equally tiny
SMALL FAN-FOOT
not to be confused with an even smaller

SMALL FAN-FOOTED WAVE
also caught today just a 'small' cross-section of the
78 species caught
 CORONET
 LIGHT ARCHES
 NUTMEG
 BORDERED BEAUTY
 KENT BLACK ARCHES
POPLAR GREY
 SOUTHERN WAINSCOT
 JUNE CHAFER
SMALL BROWN CHAFER
 (Serica brunnea)
and a few other odds and ends around and about.
 juvenile
ROBIN
 OPIUM POPPY
which my learn'ed friend John Gifford tells me is a 'cultivar'
of the original opiate bearing plants.
 The 'invasive' but none less attractive
 PICKEREL WEED
 The single surviving juvenile
COOT
still growing and may have some new mates soon.
 The first sighting this year of
 EMPEROR DRAGONFLIES
 SLENDER KNAPWEED
 COLLARED DOVE
on the newly erected Power Pole
 The new COOT NEST on Parley Pond and
AZURE DAMSELFLIES
Entry            Pageviews
United Kingdom
                 577
United States
                 351
Germany
                 118
Russia
                   71
Estonia
                   51
Brazil
                   45
Saudi Arabia
                   18
Turkey
                   15
China
                   13
Canada
                   12

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