Cuckoo Cocoon - Genesis

Once again from the 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' Album
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A day not of 2 halves, but more like of 2 ends! To start with the Traps produced a little more than in recent days with 15 species accounting for a total haul of 38 Insects. Of these c4 were new for 2015.

 WHITE POINT

 SALLOW KITTEN

 ORANGE FOOTMAN

and

 MARBLED BROWN

not to be confused with

 LUNAR MARBLED BROWN

(which we have been catching for a fair while now)

which bears a small, inverted crescent moon centrally on each wing,

hence the name.

 Of further interest there were 2 distinctive 'shade variations' of

MUSLIN MOTH

 (what significance this has, if any, is not known)
and a 'hand-net' caught
Antipadean Invader

 MUSTOMA NITIOALIS

The Middle game was given over to the Memoirs

now having reached 1979, in the edited form, and amounting to

301,782 Words.

Still a long way to go and many adventures to re-live!

It was 17:30 precisely, memorable as I had just got the dogs to snuggle around my cup of gruel, warming it slightly from the frozen state, and had decided to indulge myself in the luxury of 'half' a Croissants kindly donated by dear friends who know the predicament! They have got to last! It was then that the distinctive song of a Cuckoo was heard and it was close. Quickly, (OK use your imagination) arming myself with just the big camera I strode towards the sound flushing it from the top of an Ash Tree in the Harbins Farmhouse garden. Following up far more stealthily, having turned the Ghetto Blaster off c3 of these usually secretive and beautiful birds were, what can only be described as 'dancing' along the 5th fairway.

Loosing off a first shot at this one perched on a fencepost in
Janet's Paddock
it suddenly

dropped to the ground and started feeding.
It was risky, but decided to head back to the car park to collect
the Mobile Hide, Binoculars and small Camera.

Returning, all c3 were still there and between them put on the following display.

No more words needed me thinks!

More Boy? What do you mean More?

There was only ever enough gruel for one!

All else during the day had been fairly mediocre with photographs of

a young

LARCH

Just some of the timber cleared from 

MERRITOWN HEATH

SPIDER WEBS

 in the morning dew,
along with a few stills and a bit of footage of the days

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