Angels 12

As the first signs of evening arrived yesterday so did the distinctive throb of

Merlin Engines

sending us galloping onto the lawn to

 'REACH FOR THE SKY'

to click and vid opportuist shots of one of 2

 SPITFIREs

 the other had already landed at

Bournemouth International Airport.

Such a sighting always brings back memories of driving on holiday's

with our 2 usually fractuous daughters, until they broke into a game of

Pub Legs!

Looking out of opposite windows the Duke of Wellington for instance would add 2 legs,

hence 2 points, where as the Coach and Horses a maximum of 8.

Like most families one of the girls was lucky and the other not quite so as we bombed off

down to Cornwall spotting firstly the

Brace of Millipedes, to one's great delight, while followed shortly on the other side of the road by

The Sir Douglas Bader!

Someone's got to Win!

 Soon after this 

HELICOPTER

seemingly lacking any pennant numbers / letter also did a pass,

the odds are on someone enlightening me?

About to stow away the trusty Canon there was a 

Monopoly Moment 

as this terrified

PHEASANT

tried to

Get Out of Jail Free!

The morning arrived with some joy as early intervention into the

Moth Traps

brought forth a splendid 'first for the year'

 PINK-BARRED SALLOW

It sometimes gets a little tiresome stating that 

"we don't do Micro's",

usually the smaller Insects of the Moth world, but that's only until 

something like this turns up.

 with no vernacular name
EVERGESTIS LIMBATA

 has to be one of the most beautiful of that divission ever seen.

The images, unfortunately, do not represent it at all well.

 Otherwise, up north there was little more than a lone

 lone

male

 GADWALL
(the missus seemingly disappeared)
and the now long staying and rapidly moulting

 MUTE SWAN

 On the Heath, where no Moth Traps were flashed up last night,

there were a few difficult to snap

 MEADOW PIPITs

along with

 a record number of

 WHEATEAR

 on site.

No accurate count was made, but certainly in excess of 2 dozen.

 More football sized

PUFFBALL FUNGI

in the 

Solar Panel Compound

followed by yet another new 

Eddie Stobbart Lady!