Robbery, Assult and Battery - Genesis

 The thing about seeing a'first for year'

JERSEY TIGER MOTH
through the perspex collar of the first trap as the first Insect is that, under these fairly lacklustre

conditions, it ain't going to get much better? By comparison the best from the Heath Traps

AUGUST THORN

also new for the year was no less welcome.

This tiny orange coloured SLUG

was also of interest even though we cannot

put a name to it nor can we to this mighty beast which could be a

BLACK CLOCK BEETLE
from our investigations and if so a first sighting ever.
(the queue is already and quite rightly forming to correct us)

All else from the traps were this pair of

FOUR-SPOTTED FOOTMAN
(female uppermost) only our second and third this year.

Otherwise, from within the Solar Panel Compound

the greatest surprise of the month this
MISTLE THRUSH

seeming feeding this youngster with all the others having dispursed days ago!
Along the Bracken line away from the Heath these

ROBBER FLIES
were caught in the act of procreating.

The juvenile theme continued further on watching this

SKYLARK

fall to the ground to

attend young.
A brief encounter with the Rare Breed

OLD ENGLISH WHITE STEER
was as rare as the animal itself as having been move to the Satelite Heath usually blocked from view.

and finally, there was a time but not in recent years

we would have welcomed the climb as well!