The Happening - Supremes

 It had to happen sooner or later and while not O. T. T. the first decent 'crop' of Moths overnight, 48 Insects of 18 Species, with the most PROMINENT being the family group of PROMENENT's! Of the genre we managed to capture c4 seperated species overnight including

from the 2 traps at home

IRON PROMINENT

PEBBLE PROMINENT

along with

SWALLOW PROMINENT
all First's for the Year and also a far less beaten up and the second of 2022

GREAT PROMINENT
but in our excitement have jumped the gun slightly as before the lamps were even extinguished a

BRIMSTONE MOTH
had been plucked from a dew soaked lawn and likewise added to the Year List.

That might have been the end of it had we not recovered half a dozen

FLAME SHOULDER,s
from the more northen traps along with an earlyish

BIRCH MOCHA

and a single

MULLEIN 

from up north and also increasing the Year List.
Among the melee and transiting to the other traps we stopped to check on the Mute Swans to see if they had yet sorted their lives out - to be continued - but additionally catching no more than a 30 seconds glimpes of a

PIED FLYCATCHER
consigned to the RARE catagory here as only ever having recorded

this 3rd individual across our 10 years of recording here!

To the accompanying clatter of a Royal Navy

MERLIN HELICOPTER

we failed for a 4th time to coax the

Black Lamb
back into the compound, we will persist and to end on a high note we recieved reliable information

of c2

 RED KITEs

flying relatively low above the Fencing Centre the previous afternoon.