Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary

 A more than welcome start to the new day as at 00:30 precisly the first, and distant, Little Owl of the Autumn burst into that very familiar and screeching song which was penciled in for further investigation later in the day. Priority must always be with the Moth Traps as releasing these little critters without damage and following a spell of temperatures sometimes as high as +18°C a plummet to just +8° seemed to do the buisenes with

c2 VESTAL's

which come in a variety of shades from

deep pink to pale yellow,

along with another eye-catching beauty

PINK-BARRED SALLOW
both duely added to the Year List.
and while they have been operating from here for a few months now

this is the first time we have had an

EASY JET

in the view-finder and while on the subject

we did secure a couple of images of the runway at

BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL RUNWAY
looking arcross the adjoining heath from east to west.

Otherwise, this might just be the last

COMMON WHITETHROAT
we see until late April 2022

but feel there should still be a couple or so waves of

WHEATEAR

before Autumn ends.
Another

SMOOTH SNAKE

unusually on the top of one of the covers, instead of beneath,
maybe trying for those last few rays before hibernation begins?

Under, were the usual combination of

SLUGs

and

SNAILs
and leaving us with a striking pose from the 3 larger Goats

FRENCH ALPINE to the fore along with the c2 OLD ENGLISH.