Virginia Plain - Roxy Music

While the overnight temperature hovered at about +17°C,

across the whole of the night, it didn’t bring with it a

Moth Bonanza

but we did pick up on a couple of useful additions to the 2020 list
as well as getting back to some sort of normality after that 
Great Weekend.

 Morning had Broken!

 PLAIN PUG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonWfTW7jKc

Make me a deal and make it straight
All signed and sealed, I'll take it
To Robert E. Lee I'll show it
I hope and pray he don't blow it 'cause
We've been around a long time just try try try tryin' to
Make the big time

along with both

 male

 and 

female

 FOUR-SPOTTED FOOTMAN

Additionally, this 

 SPIDER

had made something of a larder in one of the egg-tray depressions.

After the traps an early find at the 

Gravel Pit

was the return of

 c2 pairs of

TUFTED DUCK 

(regarded as the first returning Autumn birds)

with one of the males being a little video shy while the

females

performed to perfection

and additionally a considered 'new' juvenile

MOORHEN

The few 'odds and ends' across the Heath started with this

 GREAT GREEN BUSH-CRICKET

(just look at those antenna)

hanging on doggedly to the car windscreen and followed by

 canoodling

SMALL COPPER BUTTERFLIES

 the only small stand of

 CHICORY

to have been found there this year, a single

 MEADOW BROWN BUTTERFLY

 seeminging more interested in the nectar than following suit with its cousins above,

 the first and only thus far

BIRCH BRACKET / RAZOR STROP / BIRCH POLYPORE

 along with a veriety of

MALLOW

before another 'hopper' displaced the previous on the windscreen.

 MEADOW GRASSHOPPER

 which may like the situation due to the warmth??

Inquizative, we reached for Google but while not finding the answer we did find this........

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. 

They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of 

chewing herbivorous insects, 

dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago!

Turning to leave a small flock of Gulls were noticed circling at altitude

which usualy indicated they are hunting Flying Ants of others?

After just a few minutes a much larger 'white' bird was spotted

flying far more purposfully from east to west. Much like

this image, taken on Longham Lake, there seemed little point raising the

Canon at such a distance. Without doubt, even though we would much prefered it to have been smaller and also with a 'yellow bill' (Cattle Egret - never recorded here) this was our 4th 

 GREAT WHITE EGRET

with these images, simply for illustration, of the first which was found in the

Eco Recycling Works

during December 2016 and is the first addition to the 2020 Bird List since this

REDSHANK

hit the log on the 10th of May inst.

Finally, there has been a terific amount of Aircraft activity over the last week,

with British Airways particularly having removed the best part of there 'stacked' plant.

Most of these have been recognisable save for this 

Winged Staranger

which John Gifford tells us, among other ID's in this post, is  

 G-JOTS

Take me on a roller coaster
Take me for an airplane ride
Take me for a six days wonder but don't you
Don't you throw my pride aside besides
What's real and make believe
Baby Jane's in Acapulco We are flyin' down to Rio

an Avro RJ100

owned by Jota Aviation.

Rock 'n' Roll Trivia - Roxy Music were very the heart and soul of Glam Rock and so,

being something of a Rock 'n' Roll Chameleon out came the lipstick, powder and paint. 

I started as a Mod in the 60's and graduated in various directions but oh how I would 

love to have been a Goth! One of the Nephilim maybe!!!!