There's Always Tomorrow - Burl Ives

APOLOGIES FOR THE 'NO-SHOW' YESTERDAY
TO SAY OUR ACCESS WAS SPORADIC WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT!
 The choice of Header Photograph at the beginning of each month
is a totally random affair, meaning the image that catches the eye
from our vast archive on the day. 
That is with the exception of July's Leader which was
generated by a huge stroke of Good Luck followed by a
'flash of inspiration'! The riddle will be divulged hopefully in a day or 2!
A good proportion of what action there was yesterday took place in and around 

the early morning monitoring of the Moth Traps and before even

reaching the first, a sound which is not at all a feature of the

Harbins Farmhouse Garden.
For only the second time during my tenure here

 NUTHATCH

 was first located on song, before being seen high in the large

Ash Tree.

 SMALL BLOOD-VEIN

and

DUN-BAR

 were both new Moths for the year while the 'also ran' was

confined to just a single

NOON FLY

The feature birds of the day appeared simultaneously and singing

as we attended to the final trap, with firstly a

WREN

and then a

COMMON WHITETHROAT

accompanied by a Blackbird and the Wren.
Then it was left to Plant Life to make up the bulk of the rest of the day with

COMMON MALLOW

and

BIRD'S-FOOT-TREFOIL

only being interrupted by a

 FUNNEL WEAVER SPIDER

before

PERFORATE SAINT JOHN's-WORT

 and

THICK-LEAVED STONECROP

were located.

The final visit of the day was paid to the Irrigation Pond where it was
discovered that both of the recently hatched

COOT

chicks we gone, and the parent birds nowhere near the nest which now looks to be abandoned.
Obviously not Third Time Lucky!

From 09:00 onward the day was a 'washout' with relatively
high winds and almost unbroken rain, but like the man said "there's always manana"!

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Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon

Moldy Old Dough Link 
Another reasonable haul from the traps after a warm night of

little rain and only a light breeze. However it's quiet a different 

story 'out in the field' where the 

Summer Doldrums 

are now setting in with little to see outside of

Plants and Insects.

Firsts for the Year included

 LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING

 and the tiny migrant

 SMALL MOTTLED WILLOW

 LIME HAWK-MOTH

is always of interest even if not an addition for the year.

During the process of the Traps there was a fly-over of an

AIRBUS A-400 'ATLAS'

RAF Cargo Aircraft. 

A short wander along the

RIVER STOUR

 did produce one of the Kingfishers breeding here, but all too fast

for the cameraman!

Along the bank we found both

 BULRUSH

maybe not surprisingly and

 some dense patches of

LARGE BINDWEED

before heading north to The Common where things, as previously mentioned

are getting 'very quite'.

Both

CHIFFCHAFF

 and

 WILLOW WARBLER

are still in full song,

while on the Heath the

 BELTED GALLOWAY CALF

goes from strength to strength.

In addition there juvenile

LINNET

seem to be everywhere and over at the Airport the

BLACK BOX IN-FLIGHT RECORD FACTORY
has seen yet another very productive week in the construction.
At the Sewerage Works

a bird that has already in the past been described as 'scarce' here

put in a most obliging appearance.

FERAL PIGEON
a fine looking specimen

which as usual was soon gone!
The first visit to the Gravel Pit had produced a 'blank' so seeing this

ROE DEER

at a second attempt was a bonus.

Back to Barracks, and stood in the doorway of Slight Return II, this

PIED WAGTAIL
landed directly in front of us.
To the strains of 'New Test Leper' track 3 from the R.E.M. album
New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

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Jaywalker - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers

WARNING, there may be a JAY featured in this Post!
Whether you voted IN or OUT is quite academic now, but one thing that
didn't appear above the horizon during the whole 'expensive' shemozzle was a
'clear and concise' explanation of what it entails for each and every resident of
This Sceptred Isle!
 Having just locked the Stable Door here is LATE clarification!

In, Out, In Out, SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT!

Supplied by our
Overseas Trade and Industry Correspondent
Sir William Wine, WC and Chain (Pink).

A doubling of the overnight temperature, +16° at dawn but no let up with the wind and rain, brought about a little more interest from the Moth Traps yesterday morning. Among the 214 Macros of 52 Species secured there were c3 additions to the Year List.

 BUFF ARCHES

 COMMON FOOTMAN

FAN-FOOT

in comparison with the much smaller

SMALL FAN-FOOT

which was recorded a few days ago.

 ROBIN

 going for a 'second brood'.

 BULBOUS BUTTERCUP

 COMMON BLUE DAMSELFLY

in a 'teneril' state, which is to say freshly emerged and not

yet having attained its full colours.

 Both of these Fungi are of the Species

 AGROCYBE

WOOD SPEEDWELL

MAGPIE

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER

 at Airport balancing Pond.

WOOD PIGEON

Invited to dinner at Harbins Farmhouse there seemed no need to take
the optics, but ain't it always the way. A little idle chatter before the meal
and this

JAY

looking lie a 'young' bird

appears right outside of the kitchen window!

Having only ever seen one at this location before,

and the Species so difficult to photograph anyway,

we decided to publish all the Stills and Clips that we got.
Thank goodness Janet's new Canon was on hand.

Later it was joined by another bird not exactly given to

tolerating human activity a

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

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