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Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Tyger, Tyger - Burning Bright - William Blake

In the Forests of the Night!

A most welcome start to the day as we plucked this pristine 'first of the year'

JERSEY TIGER

from the 5th and final trap of the day,

and as if lightning stricking twice moments later similarly a

CHEVRON

During the exiting circuit of the
Solar Panel Compound

what we consider to be the 'local'

GREY HERON
not even flinching at our approach while also in the area

SMALL TORTOISHELL

feeding on the
RAGWORT

as a swarm of

GOLDFINCH
did likewise on Thistle and where all else to capture our imagination

amounted to clusters of

PURPLE LOOSESTRIF
For no other reason than to check the progress of the crops we heaed south again to find the

WHEAT / BARLEY

(Fields of Gold - Sting)

whatever it may be? just about ready for the Harvester.

At 18 Acre there is no doubting what the once

Mystery Crop is a field of golden (or soon to be)

SUNFLOWERs

A pass by the locally based
AIRBUS COLIBRI

led us closer to home and to take in the magnificent

INDIAN BEAN TREE

and finally watching this

MOORHEN

Dicing with Death along the Main Road.
(a note of thanks to John)

Monday, 25 July 2022

A Word in Your Shell-Like

With not a “rain-drop falling on my head”, a welcome cloud covered sky, temperature which all enthusiasts of our kind just hope for it was only the ‘wind’ that was putting a Mocha on it, so we took a precautionary Alka-Seltzer.

A second

DEWICK'S PLUSIA
of the month and by definition the year, with just a brief look as to how such creatures might be named!

Many moths have been given the name of the person who first identified them as a new species in this country, for example, that above, named after A. J. Dewick, who trapped moths in Essex and caught the first one in the UK at Bradwell-on-Sea in that county in October 1951. (Plusia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.)

Additionally, we had potted an un-recognised specimen which would surely qualify as f.f.y. had it not escaped and disappeared behind the pillows on the bunk. We see a 'night-light' being left on to entice it out of cover. Otherwise, things still look rosy as during that process c2

EGYPTIAN GEESE

flew overhead with no chance of a double 'click' so we called on the archive as the now local, and almost daily,

KINGFISHER
commuted from the Garden Pond

to the Main Pond some 2 - 300 yards away.
En-Route
to S.P.C. 13 we were pleased to connect with one of the pair of nesting

COLLARED DOVE

hoping to bring the 'nippers' to you in days to come?
and within, for the first time we spotted the

now daily and vocal

NUTHATCH
With the traps laying bare there in the Main Compound we took our daily look at the

Badger Damage

to the
Late Bronze Age Tumulii
It having been Sunday, the only day we are allowed entry to the
Eco Recycling Works
for safety's sake, up to 300 vehicles a day, we hoped and expected to find

SHELDUCK

in evidence

at this traditional nesting site

having not recorded any

across recent months,

and considered a

Good Call.

Sunday, 24 July 2022

AUSTRALIA - Part V

Having left the Ghan Train in Adelaide we were to spend the last of our 8 weeks mostly in QUEENSLAND

having in the first instace to transit New South Wales. Our journey to the north was kept very much to the coastal fringe but we are not even going to attempt geographical accuracy.