Roll Over Beethoven - ELO

 The band is named after a Yorkshire Greeting

E -LO

or more correctly The Electric Light Orchestra to you and me!

You know the temperature's risin' 

and the jukebox's blown a fuse
My heart's beatin' rhythm

and my soul keeps singing the blues
Roll over Beethoven 
and tell Tchaikovsky the news!

Well, the outside temerature is also rising but not reflecting at the Moth Traps

but we are grateful for the couple of little 'tickles' we have had over the weekend.

The first, not quite qualifying as a 'rarity', but mostly local to the southern half of

Great Britain

LUNAR-SPOTTED PINION

has only been captured here on just one previous occassion.

 

The second and far more common was a 'melanistic' variation of

BLACK ARCHES

 and something of an acrobat.

For comparrison the far lighter architype.

I got a rockin' pneumonia
I need a shot of rhythm and blues (woo)
I think I got it off the writer
Sittin' down by the rhythm revue
Roll over Beethoven
We're rockin' in two by two - as above!

 Turning to head for the Heath there before us, striding across the lawn, was

what "had to be"

Great Britain's First

 WHITE-NECKED RAVEN

A native to

Eastern and Southern Africa

it was a foregone that this would be accepted by the

British Birds Rarities Committee

but we won't mention juvenile

CARRION CROW

if you don't! 

 Here's a real one for your delectation, slightly smaller than our 'home grown' ones.

Most of our day was again spent on the Heath and only amounted to the 

Usual Suspects

but it's in our DNA that we cannot stop 

Loveing and Clicking them in equal proportions.

The Night Sky on Saturday

at lighting-up time.

First to show itself was a rather confiding young buck

ROE DEER

there is tell of a 

Chinese Water Deer also on the loose here

but we have never had a sniff of it - here's hoping.

 Perched in what has now become known as the

 RAPTOR TREE

as having had  an adult Hobby, Kestrel and a still unidentified Falcon

(maybe Saker, Lanner or even a Hybrid)

perched there in recent weeks, today it hosted a

COMMON BUZZARD

As the morning warmed up a few  Butteflies were teased out of hiding

starting with this 

LARGE SKIPPER

which coincidentally perch right next to out first of the year

'RIPE' BLACKBERRY

others included

 SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY

SPECKLED WOOD

 SMALL TORTOISESHELL
along with other beauties such as

 BEE MIMIC HOVERFLY
and

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

Britsh Airways 
are now busying thenselves with the relocation of many,
and all it is suspected, of their stacked passenger carriers

 with at least half of them

 removed already.
Once again the temptation was too strong not to 'click'

 Juvenile

 STONECHAT
as stated before, they will soon be adults and maybe gone!

A startled

DARTFORD WARBLER
which wasn't hanging about for a
Cecil B Demille.
while the

MISTLE THRUSH
was at the Solar Panel Compound Gate.
Also there was a rapidly disappearing

FOX
which with a little stealth may also have been captured with the
Canon.

 Yes, we thought as much as both skill and dexterity

 not to mention fieldcraft

REYNARD

was surely out-foxed!
Well early in the morning, I'm a giving you the warning
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Hey diddle diddle, I'll play my fiddle
Ain't got nothing to lose
Roll over Beethoven
And tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Penned by Chuck Berry

Finally we snapped on of the pair of Eco

 COLLARED DOVEs

before breaking into the

Sarnies and Coffee

KEEP SAFE and WELL!