Saturday 5 June 2021

Fire Brigade - The Move

With the temperature touching +26C at noon on the first of June, (a poet and we don’t even know it) there were no surprises as the Moths started tumbling in early morning!

LIGHT EMERALD
the rather bizarre
BUFF TIP
MILLER
the delightful
PEACH BLOSSOM
and a final beauty in the flesh
RUBY TIGER
with a larvae from the archive.
Again rather expected than a surprise, once again a mobile
GARDEN WARBLER
has taken up station at a site that has become traditional over every year since records began,
where the Heath meets the Eco Works but surely not the same bird?
We would have heard it louder and sweeter were it not for this
GUIMBAL CABRI CHOPPER
of Elite Helicopters directly overhead - if you live on top of an
International Aiport
what do you expect?
A few more Butterflies on the wing
such as this

COMMON BLUE
but only a single and unfortunately hapless day-time flying Moth a
COMMON HEATH
obviously invited to dinner by this young
DARTFORD WARBLER
Returning to the Airport just briefly there seemed to be nothing more than a
short squirt followed by a trickle from this
State of the Art Fire Engine
before our attention was turned to something far smaller
the remains of a presumed recently hatched
ROBIN's EGG
and likely a wide gape waiting to be fed while yet another
SLOE WORM
while all else included this

ORANGE FRINGE SLUG

an absolutely 'cracking'
GREY WAGTAIL
at the Sewerage Works and another equally 'smart'
BLACK PHEASANT
and a couple of doodles with the usual
ROOKs
and
JACKDAW
through the closed window.