As if the season hadn’t already started off on a ‘bright note’, with
Dave and all, it seemed like it was destined to continue on opening the
first
Moth Trap
to find another ‘Vulcan’ by the name of
OLD LADY
Common enough, but valued on capture by your average Moth'er
(unmarried or otherwise)
it does have rather a strange characteristic known as
ESTIVATION
which in the true sense of the word is a prolonged torpor or dormancy
(also effecting some other insects, fish,
or amphibian) during a hot or dry period.
until the time / temperature is right to take to the wing fully!
However, we were soon distracted from that with the merriment subsiding as recovering the
Bund Trap
for inspection, there lay the body of our
WOOD PIGEON
(Squab)
with no signes of predation or other misadventure there was
but a single loose feather?? On picking it up, for dispossal, it was found to be
deceptively heavy?
Ever Onward
and while the Heath traps were not overbourne with Insects there were welcome appearaces of
FEATHERED GOTHIC
along with
AUTUMNAL RUSTIC
both like the ancient female
'first's of the year'.
At the Gravel Pit there were but a pair of
MALLARD
and while nothing to get overly excited about
one ½ of them was an adult male
looking as though interested in a
'bit of nonesense, nudge - nudge, wink - wink'
and not seen in this plumage here for a number of weeks now!
Driving along the Solar Panel Fence-line towards the Heath
there was an encounter with this
unusually obliging
ROE-BUCK
before finding the Heath
shrouded by fine mist.
There we found but a single
still not full adult
ROBIN
With all days being unpredictable
we live for the odd one that proves to be
BLISTERING!
Maybe Manana - Adios Amigo's.
