Days of Future Past - Moody Blues - Part II

 Having redistributed the Moth Traps in the garden by leaving one at

Low Level

and the other placed high on the Bund in an effort to attract a few 'migrants' with the maiden voyage turning out to be a Mixed Bag to be sure. All Steaming Lights were Burning Brightly as we swung into the hammock but by dawn the one at lower level was again extinguished and the other holding not an Insect. However, the balance was redressed when finding a fairly scarce

BALSAM CARPET
clinging to the funnel. The food plant which supports this Insect

 ORANGE BALSAM

is an import from the Far East, which used to grow here readily, and considered to be how the Moth got here in the first place with this being one of the only sites in the county.

Additionally, there was also another 'first for the year' within

CHAMOMILE SHARK

With the weather looking like it could change for the worst at any minute we only took time to check the Gravel Pit en-route to find just c3

TUFTED DUCK
(c2 males and a single female)
while just for once the

RARE BREED GOATs

were found doing what they are paid to do, keeping the Herbage down.
A decent little tickle from the traps there, all F.F.Y. included

GREY PINE CARPET

BROWN SILVER-LINE
(common and often a daytime flier)

along with

CLOUDED BORDER
and away from the Lepidoptera there was also a

BLACK SEXTON BEETLE

playing host to a number of

PARACITES

and a lone

PILL WOODLOUSE

not so much 'in the traps' but more clinging to the outside.

There would have been nothing in Bird-Ville had it not been for c2 feeding

WOODLARK

which were hoped to be providing for 'young' but even that and the Moths combined were outshone

by this

overly obliging

HOBBY

which has been knocking about

for 2 or 3 days now,

but always 'on the wing' so not a hope of either

CLIP or CLICK!

Trivia:-

It would seem that Inventor and avid Birdwatcher Peter Adolph of Royal Tumbridge Wells had no qualms when patenting his now world famous

Table Football Game back in 1946

Hoping for great success with his newly invented hobby he decided to name it in honour of one of his favourite birds - fittingly ‘the’ Hobby!

So what better name than

SUBBUTEO

Falco subbutteo

 being the falcons Latin name!