Inspiration - The Tale of an Unmarried Moth'er

 The third and final burst of inspiration for re-juvinating the Bagsy Blog came as a result of a completely unexpected but most longed for catch from the Moth Traps.

TOWERING CUMULUS

looked unlikely to marr the daily rounds of our 'patch' here in East Dorset but kicked off by finding

c3 ABERDEEN ANGUS
along with

c2 BELTED GALLOWAY CATTLE
on the loose informing the owner with haste before they took to the Main Road!

A far more welcome find within the main Solar Panel Compound was the first of the year

GOLDEN WAXCAP

where , on the previous day, there was not a sign with Birds also at a bit of a premium save for a single and not very obliging

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

Again no more than a single

MISTLE THRUSH
Alway considered of great value despite thier origins sparring

COCK PHEASANTS
With the year growing long the likelihood of more Moth deminishes by the day,
("stand up the boy who shouted HURRAH")
but still enjoying the beauty of the likes of

MERVEILLE du JOUR
and the reatively scarce

OAK RUSTIC

The OAK part refering to 'Holm Oak' rather than the Major Oak of Acorn fame, and now daily as a Holm stands right outside of my door.

At the last of our 5 traps, also within the Solar Panel Compound, not the Moth of the Year, or that of the Century and certainly not that since we have been actively interested in such things! Whoever could have predicted about the most sort-after Insect across the whole genre,

close your eyes

and open you hands for the magnificent

DEATH'S-HEAD HAWK-MOTH

Note the ('Scull Shape') head pattern

from which its name derives

and also emits a 'sqeeking sound' when disturbed

which may be audible from the video clips?

We have only ever seen a single 'live' one before along with a dead example use to highlight migrant creatures on a BBC Wildlife Documentary featuring wildlife, mainly birds, of North Sea Oil Rigs in which I featured. We may return to that in days to come - bit of an Eye-Opener!
TIME TO STOP WHILE WE ARE AHEAD, WITH HOPES OF BEING WITH YOU AGAIN MANANA!