The pre-dawn silence was shattered by what sounded like c2 squabbling
A scarce species here, to say the least, hence the addition to the Year List. Again the sky looked threatening and surely there was a heavy shower due,
Only discovered on our shores in recent years it is almost a 'dead-ringer' for the far, far more common Insect, simply the
Note the pale leading edge of the fore-wing only goes about ¾ of the length. Radford's is one of 3 Moths with similar distinction, and if my own feelings are anything to go by, much sort after in any year! The other 2 being
which still remains an object of our annual desire and
of which we caught a good number earlier in the season. Otherwise, there was no more than a bedraggled and rather washed out
The early morning
With there having been a count of 147
along the Dorset side of the Avon Causeway, less than 2 miles from here,
This on the Gravel Pit along with the
With reports of Northern Thrushes (Redwing and Fieldfare) and Black Redstarts
starting to form, became a 'double' and
From the rest of that visit all that could be mustered was the song of a
among the host of mixed Meadow Pipit, Starling and Goldfinch
only outnumbered by the hundreds of
and others in their prime. Another attemp was made for the Thrushes across the southern pastures without success, but it is the time of year when we stop and take in the beauty of this
The gardener does not love to talk, she makes me keep the gravel walk,
And when she puts her tools away, she locks the door and takes the key.
Robert Louis Stevenson
