Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix

It comes to something when you have to rely on the

CANADA GOOSE FAMILY

to kick off a post at the main pond but truth is that is all to have been 

produced there this year making it the worst season since records began in 2014!

BUT

we did have a little trickle from the Moth Traps with

BARRED YELLOW

 KENT BLACK ARCHES

 SANDY CARPET

along with

 SHORT-CLOAKED MOTH

all appended to the 2020 list.

 Also close to home and as has become the norm the

Dawn Chorus

was again adiquately endorsed by

 WRENs

With a single exception the rest of the days action came strictly from the

Heath

where the stiff breeze was resultant in adding one of my favourite sights there with the

 ASPENS

as if part of some mighty ballet - most theraputic!

 Almost at the end of the plod, with little to show for it, suddenly a mob of juvenile

 SWALLOWs

appeared as if from

 nowhere.

 2 to 3 dozen in total

with not an adult in sight

 and as confiding

 as many 'young' that haven't experienced

the perils of the Wild

 YET!

Both Adult and Juvenile

STONECHAT

were also in the

 with the adult males, while successful, were not hanging around for long.

juveniles honing their hunting skills

and seemingly doing very well to the Grasshoppers demise!

Little legs still kicking.

What a sight

but the BEST and certainly most SURPRISING was kept until last when this

 presumed juvenile

SPOTTED FLYCATCHER

 took up perch briefly in the

Solar Panel Compound.

Thing is we only and strangely ever see a single bird here in any year

and very much doubt they breed, but the possibility seems to have come somewhat closer?

 and finally, great news from one of our Weymouth reporters, who has sent these images of

 LARGE TORTOISESHELL BUTTREFLY

which was nurchured from a Larvae and something of a 'rarity' in

Great Britain!