The Hunter - Free

 Later, to metamorphose into Bad Company

HURRAY, HURRAY THE FIRST OF MAY - WE HOPE MORE MOTHS WILL COME OUR WAY! 

At the time of activating the Moth Traps (20:30) the temperature was still holding a much awaited +14°C with a follow up of +8°C at dawn. There were however predictions of showers raining on our parade, but even they remained at bay until we had completed the rounds at least. A little keyed up it might be said, that right out of the norm we attended to the 2 home-bound ones first with both drawing a ‘blank’. A little deflated we headed for the Heath where we were about to see the other side of the coin with all of the following being ‘firsts for the year’!

Common but none the less Welcome

SCALLOPED HOOK-TIP
same credentials but nonetheless sort after

BIRCH MOCHA
and while we know not if there are collective nouns accociated with such creatures (doubtful) we would invent our own

for a group of

CHOCOLATE-TIP

a Cadbury of or a Bar of!
While we continue to maintain that "we don't do Micro Moths" (to many, to tiny and to time consuming) there is one that has been hammered into us over a number of years and now easily recognisable as

MUSOTIMA NITIDALIS
Like the vast majority of the other Micros, it seems like hundreds, it has no vernacular name but have had it drummed into me that this is an import from the Antipodes with the first for Great Britain being found in Dorset in 2009 thought to have arrived among cargos of Tree Ferns.
Things get far more simple as we recount the rest of the day which featured little more than
Common Stuff

commencing with the finding of a new

BADGER SETT

consisting of 9, what look like, active burrows.
This only came about while attempting to capture all c3 of the Heathland

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

on a single snap.
(gaping)

before being distracted by this most obliging

Chap or Chapess

carrying out a number of functions such as

preening
and

singing.

It would also seem that a small pod of

WHEATEAR

also

wafted

in last night

with this one already fraternizing with the local
Meadow Pipit's.

MISTLE THRUSH

numbers also continue to rise

across the best restaurant in town the
Solar Panel Compound
where you don't have to 'sing for your supper'

but it certainly helps

if you are a

decent hunter.
We will surely be keeping a Weather Eye on the newly found
Badger Sett
with any antics being delivered to your door without payment or delay!

Pound for Pound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3GHq53Wo4

Paul Rogers 

has to be the greatest Blues Howler this country has ever fathered. Seen live as his own entity at

Nottingham all those years ago, thought I was melting - WoW!

TOMORROW BEING SUNDAY, ARE YOU GOING TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO JOIN YOU AT 'HATO PINERO'??