Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

Appologies for the late arrival of today's Post, internet issues, maybe due to the continuing heavy rain?

On the face of it the return of fine weather yesterday might have brought with it more than it did, so while struggling we simply clicked what we could. A great start nonetheless as we plucked a 

DEWICK'S PLUSIA
from one of the traps close to home which sent the memory racing back to the early 70's!

Having been inspired by a very young Martin Cade, now Warden of the Portland Bird Observatory, my Mothing days were very new but within a matter of weeks did secure only the 16th of this Insect to have been recorded in Great Britain. Another enthusiast and occassional visitor to my then home in Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Norman Hall, coincided with the capture, threw a couple of cartwheels and shipped it off to the Royal Entomological Society to show the Hierarchy. It has become a little more common and more frequent in the meantime but still a welcome addition.
Clicking started with the

juvenile

BLACKBIRD's

on the lawn

and a search, without success, for the newly hatched
WOOD PIGEONs.

The MUTE SWAN family

were found to be

All Present and Correct
but a strange find clining to pond weed was this

POPLAR GREY MOTH

Nothing new from the traps on the Heath but from the

New Division

these juvenile

LINNETs

along with a single

MEADOW PIPIT

haven't been in the

World for Long.
Another 'free flyer' was an

ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH
followed by a bunch of

THISTLES
we haven't sussed yet.

Finally, and still Best in Show the still lone

LITTLE GREBE

seems to have found sanctuary safely secured to the
Dockyard Wall.