The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

 Back to reality and now rapidly cruising towards ONE MILLION HITS thanks to you ALL!

Not so much a Dawn Chorus as a Midnight Mass as a lone

SONG THRUSH
was belting it out, 'double four time' right across the Witching Hour (but plainly not this one) while at the Moth Traps things are starting to improve along with the more suitable overnight temperatures.

TREBLE LINES

with

SHEARS
both new arrivals for the year, another

PALE TUSSOCK
along with a couple of clusters of

COCKCHAFER

MAY BUG,

DOODLE BUG
call them what you will.
With all that attendant Bird Song we couldn't help but take the

CUCKOO WALK
On entering the Solar Panel Compoud it was immediately apparent that we had missed the

Event of the Previous Day

Shearer's at Work

(don't know if black wood is more or less valuable)

but leaving the EWEs as naked as the day they were born!

There is lambswool under my naked feet, the wool is soft and warm
gives off some kind of heat.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed,
imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.
The fleas cling to the golden fleece hoping they’ll find peace.
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid, there’s no hiding in my memory,
there’s no room to void

Carpet Crawlers - Genesis

All else of interest within were a decent number of

juvenile

STARLINGs

that had the good grace

to hang around for

a 'click' and a 'clip'!

On the way back there was time to clock this

GREY HERON
in the mist as the Gorila's were having a day off.

Passing a host of golden

BUTTERCUPs
we were then invited into the Fencing Centre to view their latest find.
(magic as knowing of my interests people report such things as this)

WRENs NEST

tightly packed between the fence panels awaiting sale.

With the area now cordend off and a notice placed,

looks like these 'nippers' will
Live to 'FLIGHT' Another Day!
Always worth a slight diversion into
Bournemouth International Airport where it was found both

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLs
and

HERRING GULLS
(at great distance)
are still incubating and where also the sharply contrasting

HORSE CHESTNUT CANDLEs
and one of the

BLACK PHEASANTs
(trying a disappearing act)
looked splendid in the late morning Sun - yes you remember Sun!

Wild Weekend - The Rebels (1963) Part 3

Never in our existance have we dedicated a complete post to just one Creature but as the light faded on our Magical Weekend this was surely the Show Stopper so make no apology for glueing on every video and still!

Brock the Badger

That younger animal was surely getting some grief from the presumed parent!

YES, you can get too much of a Good Thing but nice to have the option!

Wild Weekend - The Rebels (1963) Part II

 A shame that such weekends are all to soon over but nonetheless we were still making the most of it!

White fluffy clouds in a cluster

were hanging on the breeze to dry

was the order of the next day as

EASYJET
have now returned to Bournemouth International.
Having shown most of the weekends Moths there were just c2 species left to highlight these 2

POPLAR HAWK-MOTHs
in the hand along with yet another addition to the Year List at the end of the Post.

BROOM
not at all common here is now well in

BLOOM
but we were distracted by a seemingly close and very vocal

CUCKOO

which most obligingly

flew to within

Camara Range.

Some Fungi such as this
SAINT GEORGE'S MUSHROOM

are breaking surface but this being undermined by

BLACK ANTs
while on the evidence of foraging

MEADOW PIPIT

their young should also be 'on the wing' fairly soon?
BUTTERFLIES
were also proving accommodating as c3 species in quick succession were logged, our second

HOLLY BLUE
(a little battered)

as was our first

GREEN HAIRSTREAK
and very lucky to capture a

SMALL HEATH

with wings akimbo!
while on the same bush Dave also found a most welcome

LARGE RED DAMSELFLY
the first of the family group this year.

With this stone as an 'Anvil' and Snail Shell debris close by it was surely the work of a local
Song Thrush maybe also feeding young while having been extremely vocal hereabouts.
With Dave's departure imminent it was decided to make an attempt at capitalising on the weekends successes while on our way to the target we found firstly a reasonable sized

SLOW WORM

followed by a tiny juvenile, then a clump of

TURKEY FEATHER FUNGI
along with a 3rd

SLOW WORM
 before arriving for a second visit to the lone but now blooming

RHODODENDRON BUSH
growing in the heart of the long time abandoned RAF camp.

there was but a single

of the object of our desire

but enough to append it to the2021 Moth List after a wonderful

WEEKEND in the WILD