It comes to something when you have to rely on the
CANADA GOOSE FAMILY
to kick off a post at the main pond but truth is that is all to have been
produced there this year making it the worst season since records began in 2014!
BUT
we did have a little trickle from the Moth Traps with
BARRED YELLOW
KENT BLACK ARCHES
SANDY CARPET
along with
SHORT-CLOAKED MOTH
all appended to the 2020 list.
Also close to home and as has become the norm the
Dawn Chorus
was again adiquately endorsed by
WRENs
With a single exception the rest of the days action came strictly from the
Heath
where the stiff breeze was resultant in adding one of my favourite sights there with the
ASPENS
as if part of some mighty ballet - most theraputic!
Almost at the end of the plod, with little to show for it, suddenly a mob of juvenile
SWALLOWs
appeared as if from
nowhere.
2 to 3 dozen in total
with not an adult in sight
and as confiding
as many 'young' that haven't experienced
the perils of the Wild
YET!
Both Adult and Juvenile
STONECHAT
were also in the
with the adult males, while successful, were not hanging around for long.
juveniles honing their hunting skills
and seemingly doing very well to the Grasshoppers demise!
Little legs still kicking.
What a sight
but the BEST and certainly most SURPRISING was kept until last when this
presumed juvenile
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER
took up perch briefly in the
Solar Panel Compound.
Thing is we only and strangely ever see a single bird here in any year
and very much doubt they breed, but the possibility seems to have come somewhat closer?
and finally, great news from one of our Weymouth reporters, who has sent these images of
LARGE TORTOISESHELL BUTTREFLY
which was nurchured from a Larvae and something of a 'rarity' in
Great Britain!
