Only Joking - Don't Get Yer Hopes Up!
Yet another shabby day of fresh winds and dank outlook
but none too shabby at the Moth Traps, but firstly we had a guest at breakfast.
GREY SQUIRREL
captured from the doorway as the mandatory early morning coffee went down.
Not exactly bursting with Insects but a nice representation along with a teaser!
LESSER BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING
does have a lookalike in
Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
but trick is trying to view the underwing without damaging the insect!
Lesser broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
GRASS EMERALD
along with a most attractive
SYCAMORE
which were all 'firsts of the year' and additionally
a dozen or so of these
Diving Beetles
Now we don't want you going off thinking that we are getting into
Micro Moths
but when one of these pays a visit then you sit up and pay attention
at least I do.
ANANIA VERBASCALIS
a little beauty never seen before has no vernacular name but was rather
chuffed to have identified it correctly!
Quiet in the Wider World usually attracts 'repeats' but better than nowt, so the day went like this.
At both ponds
REED WARBLER's
continue to be persistantly vocal but
knocked into a 'cocked hat' by comparrison with the
COMMON WHITETHROAT's
Sad news is that we have not seen or hear a Sedge Warbler since thefirst influx in April so
almost certain not to join the list of breeding birds here this year!
It is surely certain that one or maybe 2 of the
LITTLE GREBE's
but these days keeping a very low profile without any youngsters to tend!
There was also a rather interesting and for me unusual happening here as well
as the resident, for now at least, family of
COOT's
are once again building a nest with the juvenile bird helping with the construction??
Both
CREEPING THISTLE
and
TREE MALLOW
are now in bloom there while within the
Solar Panel Compound
was found a
far more obliging juvenile
MISTLE THRUSH
and finding this the reader might think that we would burst into the song
I'm looking over a 4-leafed Clover that I've overlooked before
but being ex-Royal Navy am duty bound to warble the correct lyrics
I'm looking over a 3-Badged Stoker that I've overlooked before!
To say the Heath was quiet would be a huge understatement as only
the usually very nervous
STOCK DOVE
fell to the Canon
but there is other beauty and interest about.
With so many of these what look like pollarded
SILVER BIRCH's
in what was once part of the New Forest
(and is still considered so in the Moth World)
it makes me wonder if that is a fact or do they grow naturally like that?
Back to the Homestead and a look at the now blooming
Wild Flowers
around the main pond we also found the local
but none too shabby at the Moth Traps, but firstly we had a guest at breakfast.
Not exactly bursting with Insects but a nice representation along with a teaser!
Langmaid's Yellow Underwing
but trick is trying to view the underwing without damaging the insect!
which were all 'firsts of the year' and additionally
Now we don't want you going off thinking that we are getting into
Micro Moths
but when one of these pays a visit then you sit up and pay attention
at least I do.
a little beauty never seen before has no vernacular name but was rather
chuffed to have identified it correctly!
Quiet in the Wider World usually attracts 'repeats' but better than nowt, so the day went like this.
At both ponds
Sad news is that we have not seen or hear a Sedge Warbler since thefirst influx in April so
almost certain not to join the list of breeding birds here this year!
It is surely certain that one or maybe 2 of the
There was also a rather interesting and for me unusual happening here as well
as the resident, for now at least, family of
are once again building a nest with the juvenile bird helping with the construction??
Both
and
are now in bloom there while within the
Solar Panel Compound
and finding this the reader might think that we would burst into the song
I'm looking over a 3-Badged Stoker that I've overlooked before!
To say the Heath was quiet would be a huge understatement as only
the usually very nervous
fell to the Canon
but there is other beauty and interest about.
With so many of these what look like pollarded
in what was once part of the New Forest
(and is still considered so in the Moth World)
it makes me wonder if that is a fact or do they grow naturally like that?
Back to the Homestead and a look at the now blooming
around the main pond we also found the local
HOUSE SPARROW's
showing some interest in the now ripening
ROSE HIPS
(we are hopeing the regular Bullfinches will be next)
while again the local
9H-BRE BOEING 737- 3Y0QC
seems to have got back into its schedule
as having been grounded since the out-break.
