Tuesday 20 July 2021

Purple - Red and Orange

 Harking back to the week-end when there were 4 pairs of eyes, 11 Moth Traps and much myrth it was certain that we would have to pay a revisit at sometime or another! With c3 seperate additions to the Recording Area List this may not be the last wander back as we do like to show as much as we can of our findings. Having already presented the

LUNAR HORNET MOTH
there is surely room for a repeat while our second addition was also of the wing-ed kind with a 4 years long wait fulfilled to boot! It was that long ago that we claimed to have caught a brief glimps of a
PURPLE HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY
and while it was considered then that it could not have been anything else there was never any absolute certainty about it so it remained on the Moment Lost List.
No doubts this time with 2 obsevers and c3 Insects gamboling in the upper reaches of the neighbouring Mighty Oak - what a find!
Third and final it could only have been Dave who returned to base with firm reports of a
SIKA DEER
behind the Eco Recycling Works.

An import from the Far East the story of how they got to be here and spread so widely and numerously across Dorset still brings a chuckle. It is  said that it was the owner of Brownsea Island who thought a herd of these beasts would compliment his rolling acres but without knowing how many the story goes that by the following morning they all swam to the mainland where none-stop breedin
g commenced! Back to the present and with overnight temperatures now nudging
+20°C we are also seeing some decent returns from the Moth Traps which we will bring to you at a trickle starting with

BARRED RED
which strangely also has a varient 'green morph'?
along with
ORANGE FOOTMAN
and what we find to be a delightful little creature in the

EAR MOTH
Otherwise, up-dates really as the
c2 SLOW WORMs
as a CUCKOO provides backing vocals this late in their season.

"In July away I fly, in August away I must"

continue to co-exist  with the Wood Ants under one of the traps,
BRAMBLES
showing early signes of a bountiful BLACKBERRY harvest this year.
Hordes of juvenile
STARLINGs
at just about every
location.
Juvenile
STONECHAT
seem not to far behind with a count of 18 youngsters in one of the

Solar Panel Compounds.
MANANA!

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