Couldn't Find a Song to Match the Post

So maybe a Drone later on might fit!

Another day at the office with almost perfect weather conditions

but relatively low returns from the traps!

 V-PUG

 WHITE-SPECK
were firsts for the year but couldn't resist posting the Hawk

 Along with a couple of the Big Boys of today's c6

 PRIVATE HAWK-MOTHs

and sticking with the big lads for a moment, for a Micro Moth

 BOX-TREE MOTH

is a giant.

By and large the Macro Moths are of a larger nature, while the Micro's are generally small.

The Welcoming Committee was provided today by one of the 2 juvenile

 KESREL's

strangely quiet for a change?

 Between the Pond and the Heath we also found

 GREEN ALCANET

 a female, denoted by the white spot

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

and a nice little clump of

 ANGELICA

 Some, if not all, of our readers may remember this adult 

HOBBY

being posted a coupe of weeks or so ago, well lightning has struck in the same place again.

 This time it was a juvenile

HOBBY

 perched in the very same tree and even on the same branch.

 Not a lot of divercity with the images

 as most of the time it was just perched

'bolt upright'

 and also looking as big as

 its close relation the

 PEREGRINE 

This was a 'first' for me as far as 'juvenile' Hobby is concerned!

 It was shortly after the raptor had flown off that there was

an invassion of

HORSEFLIES

which seemed to be gleaning something

from the roof of the car

just like a vacuum cleaner

Luck visited once again as we entered the 

Solar Panel Compound

to find the most aimiable

 STEVE

 setting up his equipment to film the panels by

 DRONE

 Only too happy to show this

Seawater Technician

the workings of the gadgetry before

 but not wery adept at keeping the darn thing in my viewfinder!

Panels Data 

including temperature

 and predetermined

Course to Steer presently recording Row 6.

 MANANA

PS - we thank one of our Broadwey Correspondents for a number of the Identifications herein - Thanks John.

Strange Phenomena - Kate Bush

A little late on parade with the

 NEW MOON
as taken on the 23rd - 2 days late, but who's counting?

Soon it will be the phase of the moon, when people tune in.
Every girl knows about the punctual blues,
but who's to know the power behind our moves?

You hear your sister calling for you,
but you don't know where from.
You know there's something wrong
but you don't want to believe in a premonition.

 TAWNY BARRED-ANGLE

 MAGPIE

 SMALL DOTTED BUFF

 BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
Sure 'nuff, he has the answer
He has the answer
"Om mani padme um”!

Strange Phenomena - Kate Bush (from the album 'The Kick Inside')

Arriving at the Heath the

 BRITISH WHITE STEER

formed the welcoming committee

 

 while browsing the Apple Tree.

This is one of the oldest breeds of cattle in 

Great Britain

hence its prescence here as part of the 'rare breeds' project.

FLOUR BEETLE

My personal 'firt sighting' for the year of

SILVER-WASHED FRATILARY

 

MALE LINNET

One of 2 

SMOOTH SNAKES

FEMALE LINNET

and the other

SMOOTH SNAKE

 

 STONECHAT

Quietish again on the day!

Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix

It comes to something when you have to rely on the

CANADA GOOSE FAMILY

to kick off a post at the main pond but truth is that is all to have been 

produced there this year making it the worst season since records began in 2014!

BUT

we did have a little trickle from the Moth Traps with

BARRED YELLOW

 KENT BLACK ARCHES

 SANDY CARPET

along with

 SHORT-CLOAKED MOTH

all appended to the 2020 list.

 Also close to home and as has become the norm the

Dawn Chorus

was again adiquately endorsed by

 WRENs

With a single exception the rest of the days action came strictly from the

Heath

where the stiff breeze was resultant in adding one of my favourite sights there with the

 ASPENS

as if part of some mighty ballet - most theraputic!

 Almost at the end of the plod, with little to show for it, suddenly a mob of juvenile

 SWALLOWs

appeared as if from

 nowhere.

 2 to 3 dozen in total

with not an adult in sight

 and as confiding

 as many 'young' that haven't experienced

the perils of the Wild

 YET!

Both Adult and Juvenile

STONECHAT

were also in the

 with the adult males, while successful, were not hanging around for long.

juveniles honing their hunting skills

and seemingly doing very well to the Grasshoppers demise!

Little legs still kicking.

What a sight

but the BEST and certainly most SURPRISING was kept until last when this

 presumed juvenile

SPOTTED FLYCATCHER

 took up perch briefly in the

Solar Panel Compound.

Thing is we only and strangely ever see a single bird here in any year

and very much doubt they breed, but the possibility seems to have come somewhat closer?

 and finally, great news from one of our Weymouth reporters, who has sent these images of

 LARGE TORTOISESHELL BUTTREFLY

which was nurchured from a Larvae and something of a 'rarity' in

Great Britain!