Tuesday 26 May 2020

Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders

Firstly an apology for sending you on a 'wild beetle chase yesterday' as the final Insect was a
Green TIGER Beetle
and not as published Soldier!
Along with the new found higher temperatures before, right across and beyond the weekend, peaking at +31°, also came gale force wind (peak 42 m.p.h.).

The warmth would undoubtedly have attracted more Moths

but the gusts maybe countered that!
Those 'first for the year' that did manage to reach the egg trays included
 TREBLE BROWN-SPOT
 BURNISHED BRASS
and
 COMMON WHITE WAVE
During that early morning process a few now daily residents crossed our path including
 Cock
and
 hen
PHEASANT
 adult
GREEN WOODPECKER
(we are awaiting the young)
 The pair of
ROBINs
nesting in the Corkscrew Hazel just a couple or 3 yards across the lawn,
 MAGPIE
which is thought should have had its brood on show long before now, 
and the now almost ever present
 ROOKs
which one way or the other have been
 one, if not the 'Highlight of the Year
never having before been able to experience the antics and activities at such close quarters!
BRILLIANT
however it is predicted that this young
CARRION CROW
wont see the Summer Solstice.
Once again the Irrigation Pond lay abandoned but a return of some of the prodigals
 2 pairs of
 TUFTED DUCKs
 having a bit of a splash about
before being joined by
another bather
BLACK-HEADED GULL
 The 'RAINBOW' Virgin Airbus
has again returned from who knows which destination were we
caught it being put to bed before the next run,
and while on the subject and metorphorically speaking
"ain't it a bit dodgy parking so mant Virgins right next to a 
YOUNG BUCK"?
 ROE DEER
 

that is.
On the same barbed-wire fence this
 extremely smart and vocal
COCK LINNET
 However, as is occassionally the way,
Best came up Last
 with our first
GREEN HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY
of 2020
 (close to impossible to photograph 'open winged')
 and ditto for
WHINCHAT 
Extremely thin on the ground here
so we make the most of the singles or two's we do see!