Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty

Today's proposed Post had already been compiled Yesterday which was intended for publication Today, but given the happening of Yesterday this Post was written up Yesterday and appears here Today! As ever, we started monitoring the Moth Traps at about 05:00 and by 07:30 we had added 4 new species to the PCF Year List including 

 the diminutive 

 SHORT-CLOAKED MOTH

 a most eye-catching

 SCARCE SILVER-LINES

 SMALL FAN-FOOT

 In addition there was this rather 'dark' specimen of

 SHOULDER-STRIPED WAINSCOT

and, while we Don't Do Micros

the exception to that rule is waved 

 when something like this drops in our lap.

 BEE MOTH

(you could never capture the full hues of such a creature with a camera)

and just for good measure

LOZOTAERIA FORSTERANA

As a quick aside, ¾ of a dozen of us went for a meal at the 

WOOLPACK INN @ SOPLEY
on Wednesday evening to celebrate Janet's birthday.

Why the subject should have changed, over the
Lamb Shank and Eton Mess, to

FALSE WIDOW SPIDER

remains a mystery but, on returning home and having never 

seen one before, Jen one of our Equestrian Ladies found a

single scaling her bathroom net curtain. Now, while she got the

ID of the Arachnid right we are still convinced the other is one of

Husband Dave's old String Vests????

Once the final, battery driven, trap was completed on

Merritown Heath
with yet another far more obliging

 but no less beautiful

 

CLOUDED BUFF

attention was turned to other things all around me such as

 PERFORATED SAINT JOHN'S WORT

 LARGE SKIPPER

(Butterfly)

 the Herb

 CENTUARY

and even a 'likely' 

LESSER MARSH GRASSHOPPER?

 along with a 'third'

SMOOTH SNAKE

It would have been physically impossible to be any further away, within the Recording Area, from where Hugh sent the text and I received it! However, despite having to negotiate 2 barriers which needed opening and then closing behind myself, dodging the perpetual stream of lorries tooing and froing at Eco, Sleeping Policemen before hitting the main road, it was less than 15 minutes to reach 18-Acre by which time Hugh had left - Pheeeww!  

It was back in 2005, a year before even meeting Hugh and Janet 

let alone visiting Parley Court Farm, that this

ASH TREE TRUCK

was cut away after being made unstable by a fierce gale. 

 Prior to that a pair of

LITTLE OWL
had nested there for as long as can be remembered.

 Today, Hugh's call had heralded their return,

 not likely to be the same pair but a 'PAIR' nonetheless.

It is now hoped that we see a lot more of these furtive birds.
The rest of the days action came from 'above'

 as the noise alone was enough to alert the Devil himself

 into investigating what was going on.

 I am on alert to be corrected Roy, but even a

 Royal Air Force
TORNADO
was not quick enough to beat me to the punch!

 and then the heavy showers began beating down so hard on the roof of

Slight Return II
that it was thought to be hail.
WE'LL BE AT IT AGAIN FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
COME RAIN OR SHINE

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