Same Old Story - Rory Gallagher R.I.P.

But all that should change in days to come as once again we make an early start taking to the highway for yet another

Away Day!

Before getting anywhere near the Solar Panel Compound and the Moth Traps within we again stumbled upon the escapee

CATTLE
this time on the main Bridleway and perilously close to the main road!!

We are quite aware that you have seen them all before, Moths that is, but in need of a little padding we again we attach the only c3 representatives of last night's catch in reverse order!

MOTTLED UMBER

WINTER MOTH

DECEMBER MOTH
and hoping that the relatively high overnight temperatures continue into the New Year
and the first Moth of 2023 - What Will That Be??
Otherwise, another returning species to the now open waters of the Irrigation Pond

as this rather rowdy

CANADA GOOSE
was making its arrival known,

while our own arrival at the traps, after recording

a lone

MISTLE THRUSH,

coincided with that of the same Cattle.

Returning on the reciprical course with a short stop at the

Gravel Pit

we were rewarded with a pair of
WIGEON
(female above)

while at the Puddle of Mud

a more than welcome

COMMON SANDPIPER

and had it not been for the lone and considered 'same'

FIELDFARE
of recent days there we would have drawn a 'blank' from across the Southern Sector!

There is rumour of an Away Day maybe across the weekend, which is still to be ratified!