His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley

Or Maybe That Should Read - Raining in My Heart -Buddy Holly?

Again the rain came down over night while the temperature moved in the opposite direction, to a balmy +17°C so not all bad news with hopes high at the Moth Traps! Strangely, as it has been 2 years since the dawn chorus was provided, in the first instance by a

WATER RAIL 

image from the archive, and not recorded on the River Stour, just a stone's throw away, for 6 months or more.

 From the Moth Traps totals of 27 spicies x 88 individual Insects with

DECEMBER MOTH
added to the Year List

with the also rans amounting to

SMALL MOTTLED WILLOW

along with a rather late

FLAME
Also within the Solar Panel Compoud it looked as if the unseen

BADGERs,
having taken over the late Bronze Age Tumuli as a Sett long ago

had been creating othe Earth Works, as feeding stations right across the fenced in area.

Gelder Rose
looking Autumnal while at the Posh End of town all the

MOLE HILLS
are pebble-dashed.

With

ACORNS
in abundance this year, where last year ther was not a single one come the

JAY's
already in good numbers and
undetaking our rounds down south always paying some attention to the

LITTLE OWL
nest site in the Ash stump, just in case, and while the pet

EMU
was strutting its stuff Rod Hull was trying to fix our TV aerial!