Black is Black - Los Bravos

 Certainly a strange case of lightning striking in the same place twice as we started the day as usual at the Moth Traps with 2 cases of 'melanism' which is the increased developement of the dark pigment 'melanin', he utters very scientifically, in the skin or hair.

Firstly the more common and usual form of
TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE

and the darker type

and ditto with

PEPPERED MOTH
both of which have been secured already this year unlike

MARBLED BROWN

LEAST BLACK ARCHES
along with

COMMON WAINSCOT
Otherwise it was interesting to watch nature as its most wild
(not quite a Cheetah bringing down a Thomson's Gazzelle) but this

Spider Predator killing this hapless

MARBLED BROWN MOTH
in one of the traps.
Again a coincidence after yesterday's Post to find a

juvenile

GREY HERON
perched at the Main Pond.
All else of interest (and GREAT interest it was) as a result of a call from one of the tractor drivers

informing me of LAPWING activity at the field known as 18-Acre.

Nest so close to the pathway you could look almost directly down upon them,
but CARE had to be the byword!

Parent birds seemed not to be phased

all stages of hatching was going on

but in such situations there always seems to be a naughty one

with this individual having fallen down a hole to deep to escape from.

Eggs and Chicks

The Loner

looked marginally older and

thanks to the cooperative parent birds for not bombarding me!