Moon River - Andy Williams

 From a decent haul of 84 individual Moths of 27 species we managed to add 2 of them to the 

 Year List

firstly

LUNAR MARBLED BROWN

along with

ORANGE FOOTMAN
and for entertainment value this

paracite infested

BLACK SEXTON BEETLE
then heading south you could not help but notice the blooming

Ornimental Crab Apple Standards
boding well for the return of the Northern Thrushes come the winter, more than enough victuals to go round!

Even further and reliant on archive images for the second time this year a (the)

PERAGRINE
was perched on the most distant of pylons

resulting once again to getting the telescope out of mothballs.
Enroute to more northerly climbs

we simply could not resist this

Cheeky Chappy

BLUE TIT
in the morning sun and likewise the greener than green

HAWTHORN
and readers may need a break from reports on Little Grebes and Mandarin which we will get back to when there is something to report, while not unusual to see

MOORHEN
away from the water but not seen before in the middle of the bridleway.
The rest of the day amounted mostley to a small rash of Butterflies especially a most confiding

PEACOCK

SPECKLED WOOD

interupted by this young

RABBIT
and finally a

SMALL TORTOISESHELL
we are hoping for the more exotics to follow shortly!