The Next Time - Clifden Richard

 If there is one thing that has amazed us this Autumn thus far it is the daily presence of the magical

YELLOW WAGTAILs

(juvenile)
which have touced down in the garden for the first time, knowingly, ever

while continuing to over-fly on a daily basis ever since and if there were but one

of the more common Moths that we would all like to capture annually sure it would have to be

CLIFDEN NONPAREIL

which we secured yesterday

with the 'Nonpareil' element of the name meaning

"Without Equal"
we'll drink to that, while the

extremely variable

LUNAR UNDERWING
also joined the still extending Year List.
Otherwise, quiet at the traps as hampered by yet another puncture not allowing us to get to the Heath.

A most scarce sighting of one of the 'under the caravan' resident

SHORT-TAILED VOLEs
(no doubt looking for scraps that we put out for them)
was considered a bonus while at the Irrigation Pond it was doubtless our own coughing and spluttering that brought the semi-resident

WATER RAIL
into full voice from the deapths of this

Overgrown Ditch.

One We Caught on the Oil Rig.
Absent for a few weeks now it was also welcome to see the odd

MEADOW PIPIT

knocking about again and to end that particular wander a

GATEKEEPER BUTTERFLY.

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