Moth to a Flame - Metallica

 A soggy start to the day yesterday as that fine, 'get you wet quickly' stuff started at the same time as we got to the first Moth Trap and put us off half way through. Resuming an hour later was found to be well worth the wait as in

quick succession

HEDGE RUSTIC

a fine specimen of

FROSTED ORANGE

and a long awaited, the last having been caught in 2015,

ARCHER'S DART
all additions to the Year List with much appriciated help from
Dave and Paul!

while additionally, the

HORNETs

are now visiting the traps Mob-Handed....
An hour later the rain gave way to

"white fluffy clouds in a cluster, hanging on the breeze to dry" 

at which time we also found this juvenile

HERRING GULL

seemingly stuck in the Algae? with a concerned parent bird circling overhead, and even more strangely this juvenile

BLACK-HEADED GULL

a very scarce visitor at the northern ponds

and never recorded perched on the
Solar Panels.

also in flight a
GULFSTREAM
of Hampshire Aviation Ltd
while sticking to the theme and spotting THE original

COASTGUARD HELICOPTER
proves the more jazzed-up livery on the other, shown here some days ago, points to there being 2!
while we rarely get opportunity to capture any aircraft

On the Ground!
Mid-afternoon and a couple of opportunist shots of a

WILLOW/CHIFF WARBLER
and moments later a scruffy looking young

JACKDAW
on the Tennis Courdt fence and as darkness fell 'calls' not heard for many a day of

TAWNY OWL

likely with a fractuous and hungry

juvenile?