Ladybird, Ladybird Fly Away Home

 Starting with something of an oversight it was as far back as last Thursday at twilight that the

RED ARROWS

put in a quite unexpected appearance and in the semi-darkness performed a verticl ,bomb-burst' followed by the more conventional horizontal stunt before disappearing from view.

The best find across all 3 Moth Traps was this
BLACK SEXTON BEETLE

while from the Chicken Shack this hapless

HOUSE SPARROW

caught in the wire mesh which functions to keep such thieves at bay.

Further north we we pleased to find c2 returning

GREEN SANDPIPER

which usually spend the winter with us - so here's hoping!
Deep in the wood we found a decent cluster of

BROWN ROLL-RIM FUNGI

along with what we can only describe as

RUST LICHEN
not knowing the correct name, but no difficulty with an uncooperative

RED ADMERAL
with the image having to be lifted from the archive. While delving in the depths this image of a

SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY

caught our eye and while with no connection at all with our local patch, or this post just seemed worthy of sharing with a valued audiance!
To end this post it can be said that we have been anticipating the annual invassion of the destructive

HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD

which come in a variety of

guises

which can arrive in many hundreds but only a dozen on the day.

while we did recieve a report from the Green Keeper of several 'hundreds' on his house earlier in the week.