Yu-hoo 'Olive' I'm Home - Popeye the Sailor Man

Monitoring the Moth Traps this morning was something of a sporadic undertaking with outbreaks of rain showers, some heavy, persisting throughout the early morning. Given that we were lucky to see anything in them at all, returning to the homestead having failed to switch them on for the second time this week, the mid-night wander did me good. Along with Tawny and Barn Owl in full song there 'lures' also came up with something of a result.

This female Moth looked rather too large for the Drinkers we

have been catching here of late. Closer inspection showed it to be

the property's first

OAK EGGAR*

as were the following

COPPER UNDERWING*

SILKY WAINSCOT*

OLIVE*

and
DOTTED CLAY*

Because of what looked like exceptionally pristine marking, this

SALTERN EAR

also joins the throng, along with

ROSY MINOR

and a few Micros as we do try to ID the more attractive ones now.

Far more attractive in 'real life'

Aethes rubigana

is a picture anywhere.

Thought to be

BIRD CHERRY ERMINE

Epiblema foenella

RINGED CHINA MARK

and yet another variation of

HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD

Just time to turn and enjoy a 'flight' of

MUTE SWANs

before returning to the traps to find the 'bizzare'.

First identified as a juvenile Duck-billed Platypus? it is in fact the

LEAF HOPPER

(Ledra aurita)
 Of the 450+ strong Genus: Ledrinae it is hard to believe that this 
is the only one that survives in Europe let alone Great Britain (Wiki).

RED-LEGGED SHIELDBUG

During my rounds there was an Emergency Call to return to the

Farm House immediately (maybe Janet had made yet another cake

and knows how I love to be first in the queue) but no

it was to attend this juvenile

WREN

which had flown into and couldn't find a way out of the lounge.

A brief visit to Stanpit and Cowards Marsh in pursuit of the

Glossy Ibis (yet again) produced little more than a very attractive carpet of

SEA LAVENDER

and finally my 'new found' angler mate Bill Graham with a fine
CHUB
returned to the river as the licence dictates. Bill and others are helping
to build an inventory of photos of the Fish species in the River Stour.

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