Mellow Yellow - Donavan

DREEK is considered a fantastic word, and one picked up during my extensive visits to Bonny Scotland over the years, and fits the bill perfectly as to definition. Related to dark, dank, dismal, windy, wet and darn right appalling weather conditions it was the perfect adjective to describe yesterday's dawn! That light rain which gets you soaked in seconds and a 20 knot wind prevented visiting the traps until later in the day, but once there the returns made for the best night of the season. 372 Macro (larger) Moths of 72 Species were recorded with a couple qualifying as First for the Year.

Best viewed from all angles the tiny and quite bizarre

FESTOON

(tail down)

was first on the list and caught

tail up before being consigned to a pot.

SMALL RUFOUS
others, more of novelty value included

the extremely beautiful

GREEN SILVER-LINES

and representing the usually smaller Micros

BEE MOTH
and from the rest of the Insect World a

SUMMER CHAFER

sometimes refered to as a
European June Beetle
(for the majority who voted OUT, maybe we should find another name?)
only half the size and less frequent than its larger cousin the
May Bug.
Still extremely quiet on the Birding Front we were flicking through
some files of images taken in the past few days and most surprised to see
just how many of our Plant photographs feature those with 'YELLOW' blooms.

This particular species of

FOXTAIL GRASS
is not one of them but in 'full pollen' makes for an attractive picture
don't you think?

 EVENING PRIMROSE

 is more of a 'cultivar' here as once grown as a commercial crop

 but it is well known that our Equestrian Ladies can well do without the poisonous
RAGWORT

 In the Chicken Coup of all places was found

 LADY'S BEDSTRAW

 and just as punctuation from
Mellow Yellow
the most attractive

 MEADOW'S CRANE'S-BILL

 In abundance both

 SMOOTH HAWK'S-BEARD

 and

 TALL MELILOT
with yet another break.

 The juvenile
CANADA GOOSE
(the only one found across the Recording Area this year)
now looking very much like the parent birds and very nearly the same size.

YELLOW BARTSIA
We take the 'long overdue' opportunity here to thank our friend
JOHN GIFFORD
for his assistance with identifications not only on this Post
but throughout the Blog. 

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