The Click Song - Miriam Makeba

In association with the current, unseasonable foul weather there has been a serious dearth in the number of Moths taken from our 5 Traps, but fear not! This has simply been a roll reversal from the Spring when we were overborne and only in the last couple of days have we completed the identification and cataloguing of all these Insects via numerous photographs. So, for those who do not simply say "oh no not Moths again" the following might be seen as something of a bonus?

From that Period

 SMALL RIVULET

 and at the time other

Firsts for the Year included

 PURPLE CLAY

and

SMALL ANGLE SHADES
More recently we took this fine specimen of

 SQUARE-SPOT RUSTIC

 which because of its abundance has formally been overlooked as a 

contender for publication.

Micro Moths have also failed to make the cut more recently

so from days gone by we show

 LESSER WAX MOTH

and finally, as far as the traps are concerned, a

CLICK BEETLE

On our way back to Slight II we encountered this

COLLARED DOVE

Regular Readers may remember this

 rather smart adult male

WHINCHAT
found in the Solar Panel Compound during the spring, was it he or another
responsible for our next and most exciting find of the day.

Very nearly passed off as yet another juvenile
Stonechat

we did, as ever, check the first image for quality

and noted a supercilium (eyebrow) which is absent on the considered species.

A juvenile
WHINCHAT
was the corrected ID which was considered indicative of the

First Breeding Record
on our Recording Area!

ROE DEER

taking shelter under the Solar Panels

and the first return of

SMOOTH SNAKE

.

for many a day.

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