How High the Moon - Mary Ford and the legend that is Les Paul

We should start our post and the new month with an apologyfor our absence yesterday

 which was due to severe disruption of our Internet, something well beyond our control.

In order to slake the addiction we put just a single

Moth Trap

out on the final day of September with the new month starting with a bit of a ‘bang’!

With the foul weather conditions of Wednesday night we would have missed the

 Full Moon

anyway but this was taken the day before while it was at 95% waxing gibbous, that's as close as it gets to 'full'.

Not a Moth at all at 04:45, but a Wader as a lone but vocal

 GREENSHANK

invaded our air-space. However, the Moths were not to be outdone

as in a paltry catch of just 18 ‘macros' of 5 species there were 2 that

thus far we had not recorded in 2020.

RED-LINE QUAKER

and

FLOUNCED CHESTNUT

A quick look at what now seems to be the only surviving

EMU
of a previous 2 we headed for the Ponds to find c4

MUTE SWANS
on the Irrigation pond but a little surprised to find the Gravel Pit shrouded in mist just a short distance away where there are now c4

 GADWALL
with the addition of a second male bird plus a new female

TEAL
The Heath was about the same, that is mist-bound not being able to see

 Bournemouth International Airport from the main gate.

A little closer and the towering cumulus cloud could be seen chugging along the
English Channel while not a bad spectacle through the trees

closer in view.

There were also good numbers of

CHIFFCHAFF

not always easy to commit to the Canon but likely taking on more fuel before transiting the same Channel. There was but a single adult

SWALLOW
maybe taking its final few gulps of UK air prior to migration
and again Woodlarks could be heard in the middle distance

always worthy

of investigation

especially when, at long last, we found one in a tree!

A little nostalgia to end with the very same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGf1GHAxhE

Mary Ford and the inventer of the World reknowned guitar of the same name, Les Paul.
KEEP SAFE!