Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

  The band take their name from the inventor of the Seed Drill.

Given the prediction of frequent and heavy flash rain showers overnight it was decided (reluctantly) to abandon the Heath Moth Traps but flash up the 2 closer to home. Good call as along with yet another brace of Mervielle du Jour came a

First for Year

BRICK
bringing the annual total to 381 species of Macro Moths. Others of interest included

only our second of the year

BLAIR'S SHOULDER-KNOT
along with a couple of

SILVER Y's
Additionally, there was a most welcome contribution from one of our 

Weymouth Correspodents John Gifford of a

DOCK SHIELDBUG
a fine looking fella. 

With nothing or just same, same across all of the watercourses we headed diectly to a very sombre looking

HEATH
which just gave the impression that there might not be a lot going on?

A visit to the GOAT ENCLOSURE found them carrying out the function they were put here for,

browsing the invassive plant life such as Gorse etc with a
Great Spotted Woodpecker
'calling' in the background before the most wily bird in the jungle landed right beside us. With both images and footage a little substandard we were not going to miss this moment

of a

JAY

foraging.
Right out of our depth but an eye-catching species the fungi with the

MOSS (left) could be PUNCTELIA BORREN?

but rather more confident that this is

WITCHS BUTTER
followed by something a little unusual. We only very occassionally see

REED BUNTING

at the reed-strewn ballancing pond between the Heath and the Aiport
but today this individual was found

feeding along the main track which is close by.

Otherwise, after a quick look at the

CHAROLAIS

along the Moors River it was off to the Solar Panel Compound where

MEADOW PIPIT's

still abound and where the c3

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

 were relocated

on the doorstep of the

BADGER SETT

dug into the Late Bronze Age Tumuli.

Also discovered there where what are likely to be the vangaurd of

overwintering

MISTLE THRUSH
and penultimately a gift from our Senior Apprentice Chloe

now tacked to the dashboard and to which we can associate ourself with.
THANKS CHLOE
and why this image should have found it's way out of the archive and onto the desktop is unknown, but rather than just delete it, we give you the

RING-NECKED DUCK
from our 2017 trip to Scotland, with Dave Foot at Pitlochry, Scotland.

A FINE LOOKING FELLA!