Saturday Night - Sunday Morning (Part III)

 

ASPENS

gently shimmering in the light breeze

we recorded a combination of

SMALL COPPER

at least c7

DARTFORD WARBLER

BRIMSTONE

the final
DARTFORD

GATEKEEPER
and as luck would have it at this time of year

for turning 16 covers

just a single but most welcome

SMOOTH SNAKE

BROWN HAWKER
and while we haven't even heard so much as a

screech from a

JAY
over the past 2 months there was a rowdy and rather reluctant family close by.

MEADOW BROWN
was the final representative of the Butterflies, while on the drive back we jammed into both

RAVEN
on the Solar Panel Compound Fence and later, just before a late lunch a high-flying

LITTLE EGRET
not to mention the
Very Best of Company!!

Saturday Night - Sunday Morning (Part II)

 With 8, yes c8, Moth Traps in operation expectations were beyond high as some of the now regulars started being teased from their overnight B 'n' B.

HIS DAVE-SHIP

The very similar looking
BEAUTIFUL YELLOW UNDERWING
above and TRUE LOVES'S KNOT below

YOURS TRUELY

LARGE EMERALD
on Fern but across all of those 'hundreds of Insects only a 'single'

First for the Year

SIX-STRIPED RUSTIC
to huge disappointment but there would surely be more to come and a wander across the Heath inevitable where at the gateway the

APPLE TREE

was creaking with

Ripening Fruits

before the first species of Butterfly showed itself, and certainly not the last

GREYLING on BELL HEATHER
'always' closed winged!

The amalgamation of 2 trees making it look as one
Beech left Birch right.

A decent number of

STONECHAT
in all stages of maturity

surely points to a successful breeding season and think it worth making a
Part III of it tomorrow.

Saturday Night - Sunday Morning Part I - (Albert Finney / Shirley Anne Field)

 A little bit adrift with the offerings from the week-end when Dave arrived late afternoon itching to get his Moth Traps set up at the eastern end of our patch, but not before light refreshments. Sat in the sun for all of a minute he reported

SWALLOWs
flying overhead then following in quick succession

and similarly
SAND MARTINs

HOUSE MARTINs
along with singles of

COMMON SWIFT
and

COMMON BUZZARD
and later, during the setting-up process

and evening drew on,  some of the nocturnals such as

NIGHTJAR

BADGER
and

WOODCOCK

and expectations for a decent catch to come in the morning?

To Be Continued

Time of the Season - The Zombies

 In my humble opinion one of THE Top Ten outfits of the 60' (so my dad told me) if only for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it68QbUWVPM

 She's Not There!

While things still remain desperately quiet here-abouts despite one of the best looking Moths this year

FLAME CARPET
accompanied in the trap by a

GREAT GREEN BUSH CRICKET

and what is believed to be the recent Juvenile Robin of Ladies Boudoir Fame?
while again from above they keep on coming

CESSNA C525
(don't worry we'll be knee-deep in them between the 1st and 4th of September at the

BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW

and while in 'advertising mode' we feel we might also direct you to Channel 4 TV on Wednesday 17th August inst, when my longest standing friend on Planet Earth

JOHN (SOOTY) STOCKLEY
features in a decades long search for his Natural Father!

Maybe the headline should have read All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople?

Usual fare AGAIN at the Irrigation Pond

Grey Heron and Moorhen's
while a most unexpected

male

TUFTED DUCK
in full adult plumage joined the rapidly growing c8 juvenile

MALLARD
at the Gravel Pit.

All to be found within the Main Solar Panal Compound

the now seemingly resident and young

COMMON BUZZARD

While at the much closer to home Main Pond the return, for now at least, of the

MUTE SWAN FAMILY

Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart

 Mother Nature alone only knows what is happening with the overnight weather, +8°C one night and

gusty wind on others, but still we are recording a trickle of Moths including F.F.Y.

TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE

a pose from a brace of Magpie Moth's along with yet another Jersey Tiger
and another First

DOTTED CLAY
but equally welcome mid-shift an overflying and 'calling'

COMMON SNIPE

(image for illustration)

and also from on high the local
DASSAULT FALCON 7X

Taken from the doorstep but into direct sun-light

again one of the

GREEN WOODPECKER's

graced our

Little Patch
While there was but a single Bird across the whole of the
Main Solar Panel Compound

HERRING GULL

after-which the first round of the

TENNIS TOURAMENT

with a message from Mr Djokovic to keep these 2 out of his way!
And finally, a most welcome note of thanks from our
Young Polish Schoolgirl

of recent days, seeming to indicate "the seed was sown"!!