Wild Weekend - The Rebels (1963) Part II

 A shame that such weekends are all to soon over but nonetheless we were still making the most of it!

White fluffy clouds in a cluster

were hanging on the breeze to dry

was the order of the next day as

EASYJET
have now returned to Bournemouth International.
Having shown most of the weekends Moths there were just c2 species left to highlight these 2

POPLAR HAWK-MOTHs
in the hand along with yet another addition to the Year List at the end of the Post.

BROOM
not at all common here is now well in

BLOOM
but we were distracted by a seemingly close and very vocal

CUCKOO

which most obligingly

flew to within

Camara Range.

Some Fungi such as this
SAINT GEORGE'S MUSHROOM

are breaking surface but this being undermined by

BLACK ANTs
while on the evidence of foraging

MEADOW PIPIT

their young should also be 'on the wing' fairly soon?
BUTTERFLIES
were also proving accommodating as c3 species in quick succession were logged, our second

HOLLY BLUE
(a little battered)

as was our first

GREEN HAIRSTREAK
and very lucky to capture a

SMALL HEATH

with wings akimbo!
while on the same bush Dave also found a most welcome

LARGE RED DAMSELFLY
the first of the family group this year.

With this stone as an 'Anvil' and Snail Shell debris close by it was surely the work of a local
Song Thrush maybe also feeding young while having been extremely vocal hereabouts.
With Dave's departure imminent it was decided to make an attempt at capitalising on the weekends successes while on our way to the target we found firstly a reasonable sized

SLOW WORM

followed by a tiny juvenile, then a clump of

TURKEY FEATHER FUNGI
along with a 3rd

SLOW WORM
 before arriving for a second visit to the lone but now blooming

RHODODENDRON BUSH
growing in the heart of the long time abandoned RAF camp.

there was but a single

of the object of our desire

but enough to append it to the2021 Moth List after a wonderful

WEEKEND in the WILD