The Bagsy Blog

Saturday, 5 November 2016

Heart of Oak - William Boyce

As turmoil continues right across Laptop-ville, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with things leading us to fall further behind by the day. These images and others that follow on subsequent days are not necessarily those of yesterday, or the day before, in fact we have lost touch with dates altogether and have no ambition to go searching the 'properties' of each image. Suffice to say that all will be of recent history and exact date of little importance to our Readership, save in the event of something unusually out of season, when we will append the date.

This was Thursday in fact when at dawn the temperature had plummeted

to a chilly +1°C which led to the first outing this end of the year for the

'keffiyeh' (Arab scarf) and the continuation of transforming into winter plumage,

check the facial fur!

The Strange Rover lay frozen

complete with embellishments while the

collars on all of the traps had a Vermeer of ice on them too, "no missus

not veneer as Johannes himself popped over and slapped on a coat"!

As the
HOUSE SPARROWS
looked down from above we plucked yet

another good Moth from a trap which is also an addition to the Year List.

OAK RUSTIC

and despite the northerly airflow and accompanying
decline in overnight temperatures we are still catching

BRICK

CYPRESS CARPET

We haven't posted a Micro Moth for a while now but there
are a few

RUSTY-DOT PEARL
on the move, and just like the proverbial No56 bus
'once one arrives'

RUSH VENEER
none of which are unusual for the time of year.

Another example of the very varied

HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD,
there is a small plague of them here across Dorset at the moment,

and only slightly larger than the above a tiny
GARDEN SNAIL

On the Heath still at least one

SLOW WORM
not gone into hibernation.
Those of you of a more squeamish nature might like to look away now
as we show just a few of the results from the Trail Cameras.

It was thought a waste just to leave the
ROE DEER
carcass to rot when it can produce sustenance for Birds,

OK only Corvides

but we've all got to live

CARRION CROW

MAGPIES

and we do rather like to show nature in the raw.

and with a similar end to our last post
this time it's a clip of c3 together

GREEN WOODPECKER

feeding just outside of
Slight Return II.

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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Tony Chestnut - Children's Game

Before last nights freeze, the first of the Autumn, overnight temperatures had continued to hold in double figures as we again reaped the benefits from the Moth Traps. Only a few short days since the last addition to our Recording Area List with ANOMALOUS,

lightning struck for a second time with the arrival of

SOUTHERN CHESTNUT

We say 'new addition', but in fact this creature has been proved to

exist on our 'patch' since last year when Dave Foot, on one of his occasional visits,

did seek and find the Larvae (Caterpillar) on the Heath.

As can be seen from this extract from British Moths by

Chris Manley Southern Chestnut is only a relatively new addition

to the British List and extremely 'local', gracing just our section of the

South Coast of England for now at least.

The good fortune continued as

-
FEATHERED THORN

and then

GREY SHOULDER-KNOT

were added to the Year List and adequately backed up by a

VINE'S RUSTIC

also in a couple of the traps the Beetle

APHODIUS RUFIPES

Not much in the way of fame and glory for me while

Hugh and Janet

have been away in Borneo for 2 weeks, reduced in rank from

Almighty Master of all He Surveys

Chicken George - Second Lieutenant of the Coop

a bag of corn has been kept handy to give the birds a quick early morning feed.

It didn't take long for this

WOOD MOUSE

to move in and also dig itself a

HOME

More 'poultry' awaiting at Parley Pond as this male

PHEASANT

was looking resplendent in the early morning sunshine.

Overhead, there was another new and also shining arrival a

BOMBARDIER GLOBAL 6000

not an aircraft we can remember seeing hereabouts before.

The most welcome Sun had also seemingly encouraged the

HOVERFLY

Syrphus ribesil

and a tardy

SPECKLED WOOD

onto the wing but no 'flying' for this

FOX DROPPING

the image taken as much for the Moss

POLITRICHUM FORMOSUM

as for the turd.

The Wildlife Day ended by watching this

WOOD PIGEON

feeding directly outside of

Slight Return II

bon appétit!
We once again THANK John Gifford for help with some ID's.

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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Tiger Moth Tales - The First Lament

Talk about 'live and learn', it's a damn good job we are never too old.

The original plan was to headline this Extra Post with a personal favourite

Tiger Moth - Steve Hackett (ex Genesis)

(from the album Spectral Mornings)

but during the search for the link found this.

Have a listern to this first then visit Steve.
Tiger Moth Tales - The First Lament

This band is completely new to us, as is 'front-man Pete Jones,

but strongly recommend a listern to Guide Vocal a Genesis track!

Occasionally these days we encounter a couple who are the latest additions as Readers of the Bagsy Blog as we wander the trail. Tony and Lyn are young and interesting people and of exactly the same generation as myself. At our last meeting we started to discuss Moths with Lyn waxing lyrical about her school days when she would capture 'Tiger Moth' larvae, nurture them to adulthood before releasing them back to the wild. It was her enthusiasm for the subject that struck me most and promised to gather what images are held and publish them on an Extra Post - these are for you Lyn, and of course Tony, and of course the 'thousands' of regulars!

CREAM-SPOT TIGER

(common and recorded annually)

SCARLET TIGER

(a very infrequent visitor to our area)

PATTON'S TIGER

(a 'rarity' to Great Britain only 2 specimens taken. If my

memory serves this was the one caught at the

Portland Bird Obsevatory)

JERSEY TIGER MOTH

(no records from our recording area)

GARDEN TIGER MOTH

(recorded here annually)

RUBY TIGER
(ditto)

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Monday, 31 October 2016

Falkland Islands II

How does the old Proverb go? "There's many a slip twixt cup and lip" to which now may be added "and laptop"! Enjoying a more than ample slug of 10 year old Macallan Sherry Oak Single Malt the other evening the 'slip' resulted in the afore mentioned computer being rushed off to The Priory for detox. This in turn has thrown up a number of problems which may result in the absence of a Post or 2 as there were a number of images ready for publication in the now drenched machine, but now inaccessible. However, to console ourselves we poured another and reached for the Juke Box spending a hour or so with

the bands 8th and second most successful album.
Fronted by the extremely talented Composer, Lead Guitarist
and self-indulgent Steven Wilson, the rest of the combo (in 2005 that is)
comprise of Colin Edwin bass guitar, Gavin Harrison drums and
ex 80's outfit Japan keyboardist Richard Barbieri.

This brought back memories of 3 particularly sensational concerts the first back in 2004 when along with an Old Flame we first travelled from Weymouth to the Mean Fiddler on Charring Cross Road, London to enjoy a fine performance of Dark Matter by Southampton band IQ. From there it was another decent hop to Toad in Cambridge to witness the debut of Deadwing in 2005 and in the following year by an impressive performance of The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution in Canterbury.

Here's just a snippet from Deadwing.

LAZARUS

Good job we had Part II of our

trip still 'in the can' awaiting such an occasion!