A Word in Your Shell-Like

With not a “rain-drop falling on my head”, a welcome cloud covered sky, temperature which all enthusiasts of our kind  just hope for it was only the ‘wind’ that was putting a Mocha on it, so we took a precautionary Alka-Seltzer.

A second

DEWICK'S PLUSIA
of the month and by definition the year, with just a brief look as to how such creatures might be named!

Many moths have been given the name of the person who first identified them as a new species in this country, for example, that above, named after A. J. Dewick, who trapped moths in Essex and caught the first one in the UK at Bradwell-on-Sea in that county in October 1951. (Plusia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.)

Additionally, we had potted an un-recognised specimen which would surely qualify as f.f.y. had it not escaped and disappeared behind the pillows on the bunk. We see a 'night-light' being left on to entice it out of cover. Otherwise, things still look rosy as during that process c2

EGYPTIAN GEESE

flew overhead with no chance of a double 'click' so we called on the archive as the now local, and almost daily,

KINGFISHER
commuted from the Garden Pond

to the Main Pond some 2 - 300 yards away.
En-Route
to S.P.C. 13 we were pleased to connect with one of the pair of nesting

COLLARED DOVE

hoping to bring the 'nippers' to you in days to come?
and within, for the first time we spotted the

now daily and vocal

NUTHATCH
With the traps laying bare there in the Main Compound we took our daily look at the

Badger Damage

to the
Late Bronze Age Tumulii
It having been Sunday, the only day we are allowed entry to the
Eco Recycling Works
for safety's sake, up to 300 vehicles a day, we hoped and expected to find

SHELDUCK

in evidence

at this traditional nesting site

having not recorded any

across recent months,

and considered a

Good Call.