Short and Not That Sweet

 at home that is as given that we are now reduced to just c2 active

Moth Traps 

and with the inclement weather trying its best to displace the others, still the Show Goes On with a total catch of on the day of Large Yellow Underwing x 1,

DECEMBER MOTH x 4
with some attempting to make sure next years catch is as healthy!

Yellow-line Quaker x 2 with other singles amounting to Black Rustic,

MALLOW

and

CYPRESS CARPET
During the process one of the escaped Cattle the

ABERDEEN ANGUS
snook-up puting the wind up us momentarily, but then an Away Day took our attention. 

You could not have choreographed it as to commence activities we stopped briefly at Charborough Park to watch the aireal antics of not

one but two

RED KITE
before pressing on to

BERE REGIS

but more particularly

Lane End

for the now seemingly reduced colony of

YELLOWHAMMER's
Pressing on to my last home town, if you can call Portland that, priority was to enjoy the views from a vantage-point not visited since our departure reached via Verne Common Road which brings you to

VERNE PRISON GATE
with ample parking and views to savour.

To the West the converted Royal Navy Heliport

and further left the world famous Chesil Beach forming an 18 mile barrier to West Bay and where the pebbles are self sorting, with boulders at this end reducing to pea-size in the far distance.

In the foreground the once Senior Rates mess (Chief and Petty Officers) and further on the
OLYMPIC SAILING CENTRE
Once my own place of 'work' (we use the word loosely) which was branded Sleepy Valley by local residents who had little or no idea of what lay withing!

QUEEN's PIER
(that'll have to be changed?)
and the

COALING PIER
still looking pretty active while above stands the
Royal Navy Cemetery below the Verne Citadel.
 One of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels known as the

SIR BOATS of the ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY
named after the Knights of the Round Table such a Sir Galahad sunk in the needless Falklands conflict, we could see no nameplate, just an Old Lady of the Sea!

On our leaving this magic vantage point  we found more businesses favouring the site as this

brightly liveried Helicopter flew past our possition and found to be part of the newley formed

Flight / Search and Rescue Training Facility
The plan is to address the Wildlife found on this visit in subsequent Posts and this is felt best to be reported by area starting with Portland Bill.