from the double and surreal album
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
If you havn't discovered this already this 'taster' is surely the best place to start!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRrQ6GlI8o
The story of Rael a New York street punk and his 'alter ego' brother John.
If pushed it would willingly be agreed that this is my favourit album of all time,
full of perfection, as far as musicianship is concerned, mystical and bizzare lyrics
with another nuance through every groove!
Wrapped up in some powdered wool - I guess I'm losing touch
Don't tell me this is dying, 'cos I ain't changed that much
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am some kind of jam?
Cuckoo Cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
We will attempt to cram the whole picture onto one post.
As previously reported the Troops arrived on Saturday afternoon
and while the temperature, among others, was not ideal with
c10 Moth Traps blazing away all night surely something had to come our way!
With all parties mustered on Sunday morning
Dave Foot (l), Moi amd Phil Sterling
our approach would be to attack Dave's traps first which had been laid,
a little unusually, off of the Heath and more towards the Solar Panel Compound
where the Ragwort is rife!
Bearing in mind we have been trapping regularly here since2016 and Phil before that
it was something of a surprise to find 'first on parade' was a
DARK TUSSOCK
only the second ever recorded here
before the No9 Bus Syndrome kicked in with a total of
c4 more being plucked from the same trap!
There's nothing I can recognize; this is nowhere that I've known
With no sign of life at all, I guess that I'm alone
And I feel so secure that I know this can't be real but I feel good
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
With no sign of life at all, I guess that I'm alone
And I feel so secure that I know this can't be real but I feel good
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
As can be seen from the first image the basher or basha shelter had been rigged
along with one of the anglers umbrellas, kindly donated by 2 of the local angles.
We needed Both!
It is a slow process, especially like Phil and Dave you study both Macro and Micro Moths,
and if some of the behavior looks a little bizzare there is
Method in Every Madness!
Phil studying the tiniest of Insects, some as small as 3mm before
they get frisky and try and escape the trap!
We will only show our First's for the Year starting with
CLOAKED CARPET
CHEVRON
along with
SCARCE SILVER-LINES
as Phil emerges from his Cocoon - Welcome Back,
as we then discovered some of the 'smaller' specimens such as
SLENDER PUG
MARSH OBLIQUE-BARRED
(we are talking pin-heads here, alone I would surely have overlooked this)
MAPLE PUG
CLOAKED MINOR
and another look at the side elivation of
SCARCE SILVER-LINES
LESSER CREAM WAVE
was considered a decent capture while
BULRUSH WAINSCOT
was not unexpected given the abundance of the larval (catterpillar) food plant
Greater Reed Mace
along the southern perimiter and elsewhere.
I wonder if I'm a prisoner locked up in some Brooklyn jail
Or some sort of Jonah shut up inside the whale
No - I'm still Rael and I'm stuck in some kind of cave
What could've saved me?
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
Or some sort of Jonah shut up inside the whale
No - I'm still Rael and I'm stuck in some kind of cave
What could've saved me?
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
However, as is tradition, the Best is kept for Last with
WAVED BLACK
being a great joy to all three of us!
In all, 71 Species of Macro Moth were captured on the day,
a 'fair haul' in my opinion and all released safely back to the wild!
Considering all of that it is worthwhile to mention the knowledge that was dispenced,
the respect for each other and the banter which took me back to
Royal Navy Days!
THANKS FOR YOU'RE COMPANY GENTS and ROLL ON THE NEXT TIME!
