Thursday 19 June 2014

Little Arrows - Leapy Lee

 I shoot an arrow in the air,
and then it lands I know not where.
Loose more bloody arrows like that!
After yet another pleasantly warm day with that continuing light breeze from the northern quarter, the night followed suit producing a decent catch. The highlight was not so much a 'rarity' or something new to the property but more of a 'novelty' as between the 5 traps a total of 7 different Hawk-moths were captured. Always aware of the delicacy of these tiny creatures, a 'quick release' is nearly always effected, but as the more common among them were processed, photographed and let free the prospect of a heptad never even dawned on me! 
 The final three (from top clockwise)
PINE HAWK-MOTH, HAWK-MOTH and POPLAR HAWK-MOTH
were in the last trap and made a fine consolation Trio.
 PRIVET HAWK-MOTH
(new to the property)
 PINE HAWK-MOTH
EYED HAWK-MOTH
 POPLAR HAWK-MOTH
 
 LIME HAWK-MOTH
 ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
and
 SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
 Another catch, thought worthy of mention was this
16-SPOT CREAM LADYBIRD
 With a small bag of goodies to sort through I set about the task
 only to be joined by what were thought to be the newly fledged
 SWALLOWs
 from the Harbins garage.
 Hopes are that their aeronautic training goes to plan
 and they get a first taste of Africa in the Autumn.
 The single remaining young
COOT
also seems to be doing well!
and on the subject of Aeronautics this bunch, who have been invading 
the skies hereabouts over the past couple of days, seem to be getting the hang of it!
 With so many landings and take-offs some otherwise overlooked points were noted.
Like 'Red One' letting out a small plumb of smoke prior to landing.
He/She does the same thing just before touching the tarmac.
 and here come the others
 
 So, we got our own Air Show
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