The Bagsy Blog: 06/19/15

Friday, 19 June 2015

At the End of the Day - Michael Rutherford

At the End of the Day - Link

A beautiful lament to carry you through today's post,

have a tissue ready!

Vocals by the virtually 'unsung' (no pun intended)

Noel McCalla

and here's the Post with a few images of our wanderings

during the past couple of days.
Wednesday was likely the best Moth Trapping night of the year
and we certainly had our share here at Parley Court Farm.
Unfortunately, there was competition waiting in the wings with both

HOUSE SPARROW(s)

and a very bold juvenile

ROBIN
awaiting a free meal.
Of the 492 Macro Moths of 70 species
Top of the Day List was a new addition to the Property
and a fairly scarce one at that

ROSY MARBLED

which even in a subdued state

was a devil to photograph, we still don't consider the Insect was done justice.
Additions to the Year List included

GREEN SILVER-LINES

CYPRESS CARPET

SMALL ANGLE SHADES

POPLAR GREY

BIRD'S WING

RIVULET

SMALL GRASS EMERALD

FIGURE of EIGHTY

PINION-STREAKED SNOUT
and while we repeat over and over again that we don't do Micros
we are prepared to make exceptions for such a fabulous creature as the

MEAL MOTH
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER UPDATE
With some Good news and some as yet Undecided.
This was the c2 surviving juveniles on Wednesday.

The smaller of the c2 chicks

seemed by far the more active that day

with lots of wing stretching, just look at those tiny 'primary feathers'
forming in this image.

This may indeed be an unusual case of the 'runt' surviving.

While there is no indication via these shots of size comparison,

this sibling is a full ⅓ larger than the other, they didn't want to come together.
Yesterday, after an hour long vigil not a sight or sound was heard of
Parents or Chicks.
ELSEWHERE

Peeking from among the horse tack

a couple of baby
ROBIN
and to continue the theme of 'new born', on the way to Merritown to
activate the traps a couple of evenings ago this

ROE DEER FAWN

appeared not very old and still naive enough to allow this

Close Approach.

ROE DEER FAWN

(testing its legs)

(calling)

(alarming)

The DOE was in close attendance and, with placenta still trailing,
gave some idea of just how close to 'new born'
the Fawn was.

CHARLOCK

COMMON VETCH

The LAIR of a

FUNNEL WEAVER SPIDER

Amaurobius Sp

ENGLISH GREEN-VEINED ORCHID

alternatively
GREEN-WINGED
(Thanks to Sheila Edwards for the ID)

Our Recording Area is rarely associated with

COMMON SWIFT

but over the past few days there have been up to 200 or more
over the Heath.

Much more at home there, not surprisingly the annual emergence of

POPLAR LEAF BEETLE

BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL

STITCHWORT

Thought to have been predated the eggs of
MALLARD

and
PHEASANT

Still plenty of

DARTFORD WARBLER

on the Heath as well.

The first
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

chick to emerge

and the same for
HERRING GULL
on the hanger roofs of
Bournemouth International Airport.

GREEN DOCK LEAF BEETLE

having a bit of fun on my car door.

GREEN BEETLE CLIP

GARDEN BUMBLEBEE

TREE BUMBLEBEE

GRASS SPIDER
Tibellus oblongus

NURSERY WEB SPIDER
Pisaura mirabalis

MUSK STORK'S BILL

A difficult department but thought likely to be
ACORN WEEVIL
Curculio glandium

ROVE BEETLE
Paederus littoralis

SOLDIER BEETLE

YELLOW MEADOW ANT COLONY

Ants with Eggs on the move.

GREEN NETTLE WEEVIL

on Building Brick.
Once again a 'note of thanks' goes to our friend
John Gifford
for assistance in identifying many of the species herein!
At the End of the Day

and back at Slight Return II, with both batteries and memory cards out of the cameras for processing, a movement in the corner of my eye. Looking through the port hole 'panic' immediately set in, and isn't it strange how you forget the location of the items you placed not a micro-second ago? A 'MAMMAL' but not any old animal, no one of the most secretive, usually only seen quickly scurrying across the path in front of us!