NICE to go TRAVELLING - Frank Sinatra

With a measly +8°C on the gauge and a fresh westerly breeze the words “abandon all hope ye who enter here” sprung to mind as we visited the Moth Trap, but "it’s an Ill Wind that doesn’t throw up something good"!

In this instance a 3rd

JERSEY TIGER MOTH
and a

putative

SVENSSON'S COPPER UNDERWING

which would need close scrutiny of the underwing to prove authenticity by those more in the know than myself while the

HOUSE SPARROWs

profited from some of the released insects.

As far as other Wildlife was concerned it was to be just a cursory look around to fine a small

BRIGADE

of

BULLFINCHES

Male, Female and a couple of Juveniles, awaiting our arrival at Compound 13
while at the main Compound we found some delightful
Feathered Friend

had left a 'deposit' across the padlock tumbler.
However, the visit was short with far larger fish to fry as meeting my friend Sue (she of the recent Australian Posts) for lunch at the

FRAMPTON ARMS

just a few miles east of Weymouth

where, within a few minutes we were discussing the options of getting back together on the road again! My hopes are certainly high as just a few of the adventures we embarked upon in that previous life included.
China, Australia, U.S.A on a number of occassions, her beloved Cypress with shades of

GREAT-SPOTTED CUCKOO

and

SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER
as far north as

claiming to be the most northerly town in the World where we were invited to join the celibration

of a successful and strictly controlled Bowhead Whale Harvest

the highlight being the sharing to everyone in the community of the
Muktuk or Muktac
the blubber of last years catch, cut into ribbons at that time and marinaded in its own blood with no chance of me missing this extrordinay ritual.

but no doubting the

claim of being

the most southerly

City in the World

as spring-board for Antarctica and the attendant
DOLPHIN GULL

No Brainer Me Thinks - Let's Go!