The Bagsy Blog: Cowboy Song

Friday, 25 September 2015

Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy

PLEASE NOTE OUR E-MAIL ACCOUNT IS 'DOWN',

WE WILL ANSWER ALL CORRESPONDENCE AS

SOON AS NORMAL SERVICE IS RESUMED!

Well, it was very nice to stick one's head out of the door at 04:00 and see so many Heavenly Bodies, it seems to be an age since the last clear night sky. However, before dawn a sheen of low cloud/mist had obscured the ceiling and

before we had time to do much at all, out of the
Low Cloud Base came the

ROYAL AIR FORCE

in the guise of a
BOEING C-17 GLOBEMASTER III
then to the Moth Traps.

Things there started very well with yet another addition to the
Year List

DEEP-BROWN DART
but what followed just a few minutes later was something of a
Heart Stopper.

NORTHER DEEP-BROWN DART
is a widespread Insect that rarely, if even, wanders south of the
River Humber.
Some research suggests that there was one 'ancient' claim for Dorset
but we know no more than that about such an occurrence.

By comparison with the Insect above, already committed to a specimen pot,
there had to be some mileage on this being the County's 'first' ND-BD
but this would need clarification by those far better qualified to make
such judgements.

In a nutshell, it reached the gaze of the Dorset County Ecologist
Doctor Phil Sterling

who considered it to be a beautiful example of a 'strange form' of

Deep-brown Dart

Unfortunately due to the afore mention E-mail glitch his words cannot
be quoted verbatim.

That done, there was another First for 2015 plucked from the depths

BLACK RUSTIC

and what were considered very nice examples of both

OAK NYCTEOLINE
and

LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING

In recent weeks the
ROE DEER
in the large Solar Panel Compound, which had at one time numbered 12,
have seemingly seemed absent.
Personally it is thought that there is no exit/entry for such large beasts
so somehow they have been avoiding me.