ARGUS - Wishbone Ash

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 Not an eye-catching contribution from the Moth Traps, but given the prevailing weather we'll accept just about anything as long as it is an addition to the List!

MIDDLE-BARRED MINOR
(which we feel may have featured before)

BROWN SILVER-LINE

YELLOW BELLE
along with the least glamorous of them all

TURNIP MOTH
At the Main Pond it looked every bit as if the Mute Swans have Abandoned Ship with little sign of the Birds let alone any egg debris or Sygnets, but we will continue to survey, while continuing the 'aquatic theme' with another brief glimps of the male

MANDARIN
again plodding another altogether different beat. Not so flamboyant but looking far more likely to procreate than the above, a pair of

MALLARD

female

pair maybe preparing for the

Magic Moment?
As something of an 'aside' it was also the 13th consecutive day that we have recorded

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
a real record-breaker as lucky ever to see these fairly secretive birds 2 days in a row.
Coming away from the ponds for a second day running a single

WHITETHROAT

seems to have been singing

almost none stop

but seems to have

something of a 'juvenile plumage' about it

compared to an

Adult Bird
(oppinions please)
With very little human activity on the day we decided to take a look behind the
Eco Recycling Works
maybe in hopes of Shelduck nesting there again, as they have done so in the past, but no joy.

However, the bonus came with even more expectation of finding

 BROWN ARGUS BUTTERFLY

which is fairly common in the area and not at all shy about visiting the Moth Traps on occassion,

allowing for these not often seen views of the underside,

2 images from the archive.
Finally, there was also some joy at the Solar Panel Compound
(or maybe that should read "outside of the Solar Panel Compound")

as that is where one of the Black Sheep of the Family has been at large for about 2 weeks now with our half a dozen attempts at repatriation not working at all up until now!
"and so with God's and Men the Sheep remain inside the pen" (sometimes!)

"until the Shepherd leads his flock away!"

GENESIS 

Grandstand Seats Only!

P.S. - It has been a BEEZA (if that is the correct word) of a Week-end that it is likely to take the same amount of time to sort things out and publish them. 

Patcience is a virtue posses it if you can, often found in women but never found in man!