Thursday 7 October 2021

Spiderwebs - No Doubt

 We kick off today's post with a couple or 4 clicks from a recent TV news bulletin

as our own salute
to the all to long overlooked
GURKHAs
and shame on Government's past and present!
Lightening up a little, we are still running a couple of traps close to home and while nothing to add to the Year List in recent days a steady trickle of also-rans has been pleasing enough.
The diverse
COMMON MARBLED CARPET
which appear in numerous diverse guises.
CREAM-BORDERED GREEN PEA
as tiny as the name suggests and
other 'second generation'
L-ALBUM WAINSCOT
FLIGHT SERVICE AIRBUSES
in similar livery to European Air Cargos have now joined the
Wing'ed Squadrons of the Skies
while from a misty heath a little more activity than in recent weeks.
STONECHAT
are back in decent numbers with the invasive
FERNs
and 'thousands' of associate Webs also pleasing to the eye in what little sunshine there was.
Not to be upstaged
DARTFORD WARBLER's
(only c2)
were both showy and vocal but none able to outshine the
Find of the Day
had to be the c2 juvenile
SMOOTH SNAKEs
neither more than 6 inches in length
and to pop the proverbial cherry atop the cake a
BLACK and ORANGE SEXTON BEETLE
with ever present parasites.
IT IS SUCH DAYS THAT JUST MAKE YOU WANT MORE!