There's Good & Bad and Mum & Dad

 and everyone's happy to be here, we've got some IN, we've got some OUT, we've got some Wild Things floating about!

Willow Farm from the Genesis album - Foxtrot

The Good Element started at 03:00 as part of a dream when we seemed to have been hearing bird-song and mustering on the doorstep, plain as day, there was a

CETTI'S WARBLER
singing for the first time this year along our beat of the

River Stour
Still vocal at first light (or maybe that should be lack of light) came the Element of Bad finding

that one of the Mercury Vapour Lamps had popped

but with a few spares on hand the problem was quickly rectified!
Another first for the year, so consider we are doing well with the lamps, as it seemed not to have effected the overnight catch either, with the best of the collective from all 4 units producing

LEAST BLACK ARCHES

SNOUT

The amazingly

EYE-CATCHING

CREAM-SPOT TIGER

along with one of (if not 'the') smallest British Macro Moths (there are contenders)

CHINESE CHARACTER
Starting out on the rest of the days adventure it sounded every bit as if this

REED WARBLER
(not at all usual on the Main Pond)
was trying to out-do the Cetti's but all contributions most welcome!
Very little else to report from across the property with the best being the arrival of a new

COOT CHICK

being attended to by the only visible adult at the

Irrigation Pond

with a

suspected returning pair of

TUFTED DUCK

at the
Gravel Pit.