The Bagsy Blog: I Can't Stand the Rain

Monday, 27 June 2016

I Can't Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles

With both rain and wind still prevailing there was just a glimmer of hope as the dawn temperature 'rocketed' from +6°C of the previous day to +8C° but there was little to show for it. It was the day before these 'balmy' heights were reached that

FOUR-DOTTED FOOTMAN

graced the traps but all else was

of a slightly less usual nature

a 'dark morph'

CORONET

ORDINAIRE

for comparison

With these c10

EGYPTIAN GEESE

having now been seen on a daily basis by someone or other, it was
only yesterday that they were captured by the camera during the
early morning rounds of the Moth Traps.

Something of a mild shock on the Parley Pond Island as at first it

was thought that there had been a 'young'

ALPACA
added to the troupe, but no just looking 'half the size' after shearing!

All on the Heath amounted to this lone

MEADOW BROWN BUTTERFLY
and a singing

MEADOW PIPIT

It is now thought that 2 pairs of

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER

have successfully bred behind the
Eco Recycling Facility

as yesterday we recorded c3 adult birds in attendance with c5 juveniles.

Adult LRP keeping watch
Unknown if LRP, or any other Wader, ever lay 5 eggs but thought unusual,
as 4 is the norm across the family, this number of youngsters alone points to 2 separate broods?
While this industrial