Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears For Fears

Those of you who read our last Post will remember the huge disappointment associated with a 'slip of the thumb' and not capturing that vital moment of copulation regards the Little Ringed Plovers. Fear not Stout Yeoman, as all will be reveled as we patiently set about redressing the issue! In fact it took no time at all as our arrival at the compound met with the 'calls' of the Plovers followed by stationing ourselves as close as we dare to the broody couple. Within a short few minutes he was on her like a long-dog and this time we were able to record the Happy Event.

A couple of reassuring 'calls' and a check on trajectory,

a final fanning of the tail and puffing of the chest then,

as Marillion so eloquently put in the song

Heart of Lothian

And anarchy smiles on the Royal Mile

and they're waiting on the slyboys, flyboys, wideboys

Rooting, tooting cowboys

Lucky little ladies at the watering holes

They'll score the Friday night goals.

I was born with a Heart of Lothian.

Heart of Lothian Link

PS - from my 5th most favourite album in the World

Misplaced Childhood.

From the Moth Traps there were 2 new additions to the Year List

 FROSTED GREEN
and

 PALE PINION
plus the

DANCEFLY

EMPIS TRIGAMMA

 7-SPOT LADYBIRD
and the amazing Beetle of the

 APHODIOUS (species)

half the size of a Garden Pea - beautiful!

After the traps we spent a little time scrabbling under our carefully

placed sheets of metal and roofing felt, to find 2 species of

CENTIPEDE
CRYPTOPS ANOMALANS

HAPLOPHILUS SUBTERRANEUS
along with a nest of 

ANTS

now becoming far more active than over the preceding months.
A WORD OF THANKS GOES TO JOHN GIFFORD FOR
HIS VALUED ASSISTANCE IN IDENTIFYING THE ABOVE.

In addition there were a couple of

SLOW WORM

while rest of the day's action was centered on the Moors River, adjacent

Solar Panel Compound, but more particularly Merritown Heath.

 LINNET

 with most of the males now sporting

 Summer Plumage.

 

 Unusual to be grounded along the

 Moors River

 CORMORANT

and 'the'

 GREY HERON 

it's still there!

A tentative plan for the day had been to pay a visit to Delph Wood, not

a million miles from here, in hope of seeing the pair of

 MANDARIN

that had been seen there lately. In the event we scrubbed round it

 and then stumbled on a 'pair' of our own.

The clip only shows a 'brief encounter' which will suffice

as a record shot.

On the Heather c4

 COMMON CROSSBILL

 were seen, my first there but Dave Foot did have a similar number

during his last visit.

 WOODLARK

are not overly common here so any record is cherrished, but at this

time of year it could indicate another chance of breeding here??

Trail Cam Round Up

Unfortunately nothing new but at least one item which we found

most amusing even though it could easily have led to destruction.

Always opportunist the early morning

 FOX

and if my memory serves me correctly some of us were once

Young Bucks

perhaps reason then for the behavior of this young

ROE DEER

Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

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