Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Waking on Tuesday morning there seemed to be serious reason for concern, had I gone deaf? Opening the door to the sound of birdsong and the realisation it was not deafening, the reason was there was no clatter of raindrops on the roof this morning!

A great sight at Harbins first thing, but not a lot in the traps.
Which reminds me there is a confession to be made.
The Insect described as Turnip Moth on our last Post was nothing of the sort,
but it seems I have been forgiven by the Mothing Fraternity for making such a mistake.
It is in fact a

SMALL SQUARE-SPOT
which should have stopped occurring about 2 months ago.
Never one to baulk at being put right by my peers, along with this
correction came something of a 'spoonful of sugar'.
As things stand, this is the latest, by a Royal Mile, that this Moth
has ever been recorded in the County and as such is something of a milestone.
Question is, has it EVER been recorded in the month of NOVEMBER?

The appropriate amendment has been made to the Post.
All else caught were both

DROANFLY

and

FLESHFLY

Time for a wander and already Redwing are a daily sighting with

Fieldfare not far behind.

GOLDCREST 

are fairly numerous at all locations and there is still some Fungi to be seen.

XYLARIA HYPOXLON

also more familiarly known as

Candle Fungi

Up close to Merritown Heath

MISTLE THRUSH

were about in good numbers and the

ASPENS

now completely devoid of leaves looked a little stark.
(They're up there waiting Dave!)

Very obliging

LONG-TAILED TITs

among the

ROSE HIPS

made for the best images of the day but there was still more to see.

RAZOR STROP FUNGI

on

Silver Birch

RUSSULA AQUOSA

BLOOMING GORSE

as it does, somewhere or other, during 'every' month of the year

and a Cock

PHEASANT 

looking resplendent in the sun regardless of the 'cover'.

On the way back I once again encountered

CHRIS SUGDEN

someone I am happy to meet at anytime.

He imparts so much knowledge and tells me he should be here for a while yet.

The German company GOLDBECK, who have undertaken the construction of Phase II of the Solar Panel Farm, feel as a company very much aware of nature that they need to leave something of an inheritance on completion of such a project. They have indeed done that with the (approx) 2 miles of 3 tier hedgerows and they tell me there are one or 2 other things to come. That is why Chris is here and will hopefully give some ideas about the Irrigation Pond.

I have past this overgrown 'heap' many times during my wanders

but was only today that it was learnt that it is said to be a

TUMULI

(maybe) Iron Age Burial Chamber?

At this point I was invited by Construction Manager to have a walk

inside the locked areas to see at close hand the works that have been done.

Row upon row of Panels

each with a pair of Sun Sensors

which transmit data, via these

TRANSFORMERS,

to each individual
WEATHER STATION
Already looking forward to hooking-up with Chris again later in the
week as he has something else to show me.
We're all in the dark until then!

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