Ghost of Navigator - Iron Maiden

GHOST 
If this ain't The Maiden's Finest Hour 
will someone please let me know what is!
With our lap-top difficulties continuing we may have brought to

you some of these images a little earlier but,

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

Even before reaching the first Moth Trap on Friday

we recorded a

 'fly over'

MEDITERRANEAN GULL

only brought to our attention by its continuous and mournful calls from above.

This is the first known instance that this particularly attractive Gull

has been recorded here during the month of August.

Friday had brought us an early morning temperature of +9C with

that reducing by a 'single click' the next day, however even as it increased to

a full +17C yesterday at dawn there was no improvement seen in either 

quality or quantity at the traps.

 While it is as much to do with weather and other conditions the

Field Guide Text acts as a good indicator. Stating that

GHOST SWIFT

is on-the-wing through June and July, it was no surprise to find this

female flanked by a brace of males.

 In this instance the female

DRINKER

is on the left, and surely a favourite will all

BORDERED BEAUTY

 There have also been an interesting array of other Insects including

 BROWN

or

 SUMMER CHAFER

 HORSEFLY

 and the 

Ichneumon Wasp

 ICHNEUMON SARCITORIUS

Away from all of that we continued our usual rounds finding today's

 King of the Mountain

 to be a fine

 but as ever nervous

 HERRING GULL

Maybe a visit to SpecSavers might help, but on the Heath

we found a couple of items completely new to us starting with

 one of the Migonette Species more commonly know as

WELD

and while

WOOD MOUSE

 is familiar

 ROUGH MALLOW

an invader from the US of A

 was also a 'first'.

The most attractive 

POPLAR LEAF BEETLE

 

 appears to be much later than in previous years? but it was then on to the

 Trail Cameras

where all that was found was a performance by the

 WOOD PIGEON DISPLAY TEAM

With Hugh having noted our single and only

 RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

during the week it would certainly have been added to the August List

 but it is always nice to see such things for ones self.

It should be noted that while we designate this as a

First for August

it is in fact far from that as once a very common species here.

Perhaps a better term might have been "since 2003 when formal record keeping commenced".
To end, another BEST TRACK this time from
Bon Jovi

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