The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Laural and Hardy

 As unseasonably cool overnight temperatures continue and aided by rain showers, again there was little to celebrate from thee Moth Traps save a couple of Big Boys.

PINE HAWK-MOTH
have been well represented throughout despite not reaching a double figure on any given night while we cannot complain about our 4th

LOBSTER MOTH
of the season and having found an image of the

Larval Stage
among our souvenirs and as if to get all the bad news out of the way early more

Fly Tipping
this time plaster board, and otherwise fairly quiet again with juvenile

STONECHAT
providing the vocals.

COLTSFOOT
blooming right across the Heath with the occassional

tight-winged

GREYLING BUTTERFLY
along with decent numbers of considered

second generation

MEADOW PIPIT

COMMON CLEAVER
(known in Dorset as Goose Grass) was a usual find while the still a

little ragged

arrived just in time to make up the numbers and joined by one of the juv

CARRION CROWs

with the 'Find of the Day' being an all to brief
WHIMBREL
detected on song but

gone are the days, it would seem, when they would alight briefly like this.
Back to Base and to find what looked like a different

juvenile

ROBIN
and along with that the newly fledged

PIED WAGTAILs

from the traditional nest behind the farm house solar panels

were gorging thmseves on the lawn.
MANANA!