Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton

A little like the Curate's Egg there were some 'good parts' to the

first day of the working week, but blink and you would have missed them!

We had prior warning the evening before as flashing up the

Moth Traps

as these giant towers of cumulus cloud chugged east along the 

English Channel not 5 miles away from here.

Add to that being tied up with obituaries and something of a lack of Wildlife

it is perhaps a good job that a few 'snaps' have accumulated over recent days.

Monday saw no new Moths for the year but there were one or three other 

interesting Insects such as

 MOTTLED GRASSHOPPER

 ORANGE ICHNEUMON FLY

 or maybe more correctly 'Wasp' 

and wonderful to be able to take a peek into their own little world of preening!

 There were also a number of

 Arhopalus rusticus

 one of the Longhorn tribe that doesn't seem to have a vernacular name.

Echoing the words of Martin Cade, Warden of the 

Portland Bird Obseratory, in a recent post, yes it is most encouraging

to see so many juvenile

 GREENFINCH

 on the wing

 as they have suffered bad times in recent years

but now look to be 'fireing on all 4'!

Pity the weather had not been a little bit finer 

to eliminated the frosty look of the images.

Reaching

 the Bog Myrtle surrounded
DEAN'S DITCH

(The Ford)
was indicative of just how much rain had fallen in recent days

as previously this had bee no more than a

Dried Out Gulch.

A little dithering almost lost us the opportunity of capturing this

 SONG THRUSH

at the

ANVIL

knocking '10 bells' out of a hapless 
Snail
as a young

RABBIT

emerged from behind a beautifully contrasting combination of the

 yellow DWARF GORSE and purple BELL HEATHER
 Our 
Outward Bounds
ended on something of a highnote with a Bird that we hear on a daily basis
but hardly ever see, the tiny Finch that is the

 SISKIN
 considered to be a regular breeding species here, but the day was not yet done!
Just before the pathway to Slight Return II (our humble abode)
there were even more 'youndsters' in the

 LLAMA PADDOCK

 juvenile

 PIED WAGTAILs

 which could easily be the product of the pair that nest annually

  behind the solar panels on the

Farm House Roof?
Best Until Last
rather dependant on the settings on your
"Chuckle Button"
we did also manage to capture c2 

WEEVIL's, 
of noticably differing sizes with the larger one escaping out grip so nice,
just for once, to end up with the
"Lesser of Two Weevils"
(Oh I do miss Benny Hill!)