LIVING in the PAST - Jethro Tull

Late afternoon the previous day and once again the

RED ARROWS
brought the day to a close and while we have not been keeping a log it seems that their presence has been felt across a full week or maybe as many as 10 days, 'with no complaints there'! However, that didn't induce much in the way of Moth Life with the best from the traps not being a Moth at all but a female

SCORPION FLY
clarified by our friend John and otherwise the most eye-catching of those that did pop in

BORDERED BEAUTY
only our second of the year

SHARK
along with the eye-catching daytime flier

THE CINNABAR
and just before the

CLOUD-BURST
We seemed to be following in the foot-steps of the nearby Lytchett Fields Reserve on Saturday as our patch was graced by a single

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER
once an established breeding bird here, but alas no more - we won't go into detail except for a moment of as the headline suggests!

Confiding small Wading birds there was never a problem getting at close quarters during nest building which would see the birds tossing tiny stones and flints over their shoulders forming a perfectly circular nest area as above. Or for that matter

INCUBATION

First Steps

A Few Days Older

and close to adulthood!
"Will Ye No Come Back Again"?

Having dodged the Rain
we found a few more juvenile

MALLARD

on the
Irrigation Pond
thought to be at least a dozen now?
Not so much luck at the Gravel Pit where seemingly it is only the male Tufted Duck occupying the waters, but a flush of new growth

GREATER REED MACE

once incorrectly accepted as Bull Rush on Pointless as a correct answer!
Apart from just a single

juvenile

MEADOW PIPIT
all else of interest (and interesting it is) to someone who has not an inkling of the workings of

Mechanical or Electrical Devices

preparing to cut mostly the

NETTELS

New Plant

now screening the panels and causing an unacceptable loss in production.
With Electrician Geoff having now sources a new control unit for the long time redundent Moth Trap, and Jose the Maintenance Foreman having brought the whole caboodle together it was left to 'yours truely' to knock up another

CORRAL

to keep the Sheep at bay.

The added trap in the far distance and the

Nettle Cutters

coincidentally clearing the same compound.

FIREING ON ALL 5 TRAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR, ALL WE NEED NOW ARE THE MOTHS!