High Hopes - Pink Floyd

In a bid to finalise the catch up we are a little 'all over the place' with today's post

but doubt that bothers our Valued Readership one iot!!

The remainder of the Fish sequence follow along with other news and images of previous days.

 This was the scene as we left the Heath, haveing activated the 

Moth Traps with towering cumulus just above the tree-tops and the final rays of the Sun 

heralding the Solstice.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
and my spirit is crying for leaving!
In my thoughts I have seen
rings of smoke through the trees
and the voices of those who standing looking!

Ooh, and it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder

 COMMON CARP

As the Druids continued their annual chantings, 4 of us gathered at the

Moth Monitoring Station

including one of my 4 apprentices the vivacious

Chloe, Mark Sterling along with brother Phil whom you have all met before.

With the view from the previous evening foremost in our minds, an upbeat weather forecast and no fewer than c11 Traps deployed surely the little critters would be bursting out of the confindes?

DACE
 Not a bit of it, as it was almost the complete Damp Squib, with not even a single addition to the Year List. However, we say 'almost' as Mark had a desire to see the beauty of a

SCARCE MERVEILLE du JOUR

a creature that has been absent from his life for the last 42 yea

as luckily the recent trend of catching them on a daily basis continued.

FOUR-SPINED STICKLEBACK

 That also held true, except for the long absence, for the diminutive

ROSY MARBLED

which also showed up in decent numbers.

Despite the somewhat dismal turn-out it was roundly agreed it was

a moment not to be missed and to be enjoyed again real soon!

 PERCH
 Having said farewell to my guests it was now time to embark on the
daily rounds of hopefully other creatures.
 Given the season, it was considered a little unusual to see a

LITTLE EGRET

 along the banks of the
Moors River
which could also be said of a

CORMORANT

 at the
Gravel Pit

 in company with a

 a rather splendid

GREY WAGTAIL

 If there was any consolation with the Moths it was the confirmation of a

  GREEN PUG
from the day before, which was duely added to the list as the 216th
Macro Moth Species of the Year.

While thumbing through the Fish photo file we also came across this strange looking

CORNISH LUMPSUCKER

(taken on the last day of July 2014 at Portland Bill)

Those were the days when opportunities arose to hook-up with

Dave 'The Fungal Punk' Higginson Tranter 

one of the most knowlegable Wildlife Warriors ever encountered in my life!

Always sure to come up with the bizzare or exotic he and his acrobate daughter
were always of great value not only to myself but many, many others.
We'd like to think you were reading this Ol' Mate!