Friday, 10 June 2016

Lily the Pink - Scaffold

Overnight weather conditions are now starting to suit Insect Life as we continued last night to add a couple more Macro Moths to the Year List, starting with something that fits the 'scarce' category here,
and only our 'second' ever caught
 OBSCURE WAINSCOT
 along with the most pleasing
GOLD SPOT
Not quite so welcome, especially if they get upset a
HORNET
which is usual at this time of year.
 At Parley Pond the
 MUTE SWAN CYGNETS
are honing their preening skills.
Other miscellany from around the bazaars included 
 CREEPING BUTTERCUP
with
GERMANDER SPEEDWELL
unusually open to the public gaze the
 NEST of a LINNET
several
SLOW WORMs
 the lair of a
 FUNNEL SPIDER
seen within
 COMMON LIZARD
 but maybe not quite as abundant as the name might suggest?
At least not here.
SMOOTH SNAKE
 and believe this to be

 WILD RADISH
HAWTHORN BLOSSOM
but the
Very Best Find of the Day
was left for our usual daily visit to the
Rubble Area behind the Eco Recycling Works.
Between 1 and 5 adult have been seen here sporadically over this season
 but today we were met by far more vocals than in recent days.
Turns out the ADULT birds are in fact PARENT birds
with c2 youngsters
racing around all over the place!
While the nest, previously holding c4 eggs, in the
Solar Panel Compound
has most certainly 'failed' it is fantastic to note success has been found here
and kept under cover for so long. We estimate that these chicks are about 2 or 3 weeks old.
A quick look for Dragon or Damsel Flies at the
Parley Subsiduary Pond
met with a 'blank' but the
BLOOMS
in themselves were more than compensation for that!
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