Sweet Painted Lady - Elton John

 It was Saturday evening that once again we hosted and warmly welcomed the 

 

‘Human Pheromone’

(shrouded in bright colours from above the following morning)

a.k.a. Dave Foot

(which of course also heralded the rain - so be it)
after a series of veiled moans and groans, via these pages, reference the lack of Moths previously!
It was left to his Dave-ship to set the traps in motion that evening and in so doing recorded

NIGHTJAR's

not only hawking Insects but also 'churring' (singing) which seemed a little late in the year as they have surely commence the southern migration by now.
On the face of it the traps looked to be packed to the rims and we were not to be disappointed as first out of the hat were a couple of 'first for the year' (as all the following Moths are)

HEATH RUSTIC
and

TAWNY SPECKLED PUG
interspersed by other creatures mostly spotted by Dave such as a

delightful

YELLOW WAGTAIL
more Moths including

DUSKY THORN
and

BUFF FOOTMAN
then just to break with tradition my own contribution of an

extremely distant, can you see it yet, almost centre in the bare branches?

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

going through all the functions including drumming, preening, feeding and singing,
but back to the business in hand with

WHITE-LINE DART
and the fairly similar

ARCHERS DART

the exquisit

GOLD RINGED DRAGONFLY
a brace of Pug species

WORMWOOD PUG
and

CURRANT PUG

SALLOW

SMALL COPPER
(Butterfly)

OBLIQUE CARPET

and as is the want of us here Gentlemen, we complete the Post with a stunning

PAINTED LADY