Black is Black - Los Bravos

  BUT WHITE CAN BE WHITER!

Despite the lightest of rain and something of a draught coming from the south west again we did relatively well from the Moth Traps with

SMALL SCALLOP

SWALLOW-TAILED MOTH

BORDERED BEAUTY

CLOUDED SILVER
along with

SCALLOP SHELL
and while we don't wish to hit you with a BBC style 'repeat' of Monday's Post there was what we consider to be another wave of juvenile

SWALLOWs
which as a maximum we have never recorded

more than 2 pulses of such

in a single season

so make the most of it as

we may not see the likes of it again for

Another Year!
Just to put a slight slant on that there were also a couple of

JUVENILE STONECHATs

along with them.
All else included some other rather interesting and bizzare looking Insects away from the traps

such as

WESTERN CONIFER SHIELDBUG

TIGER CRANEFLY
and a

PINE CHAFER
but ALL out-bizzared by this almost totally albino / leucistic

PUFFIN
sent to our Editor by John Gifford.

All in a Mouses Night - Genesis

 With the weather still nowhere near SUMMER it has turned a little for the better which has been reflected at the Moth Traps. Decent additions to the Year List

have included

RED-NECKED FOOTMAN

BLUE-BORDERED CARPET

CLAY

BUFF ARCHES

and as the name suggests the

DELICATE
Elsewhere, and at this man-made spinney known as

The Island
we once again found, under the only cover therein, the only

COMMON LIZARDs

among the

THISTLES

which is the only site here known to

support such a creature.

A vocal but all to distant

WREN

added to the visit as did the first juvenile

COMMON BUZZARD

we have noted this year but under the same circumstances.

On the Heath we found this lot still breeding like

RABBITs

and in part predictably

SMOOTH SNAKE

along with masses of

ANTS

with thier

EGGS
but on this occassion not one

WOOD MOUSE

but

c2

WOOD MICE

under successive covers which is a record for here and with the

MULLEIN
now well above ground level it should only be a matter of days before we see the
Yellow Spikes of Flower - feel we are getting a little behind with this?

Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller

 Now that's going back a bit!

But in the far less distant past, guess we have all had some of this so looking foreward to the Post when we can title it

Here Comes Summer - Jerry Keller
Sporadnic at the Moth Traps only having secured

LIGHT ARCHES

PHOENIX

GREY ARCHES

and

BROWN HAWKER
from within and along with

BLACK-TAILED SKIMMER
from with-out but close by.
Otherwise, a more than decent start to the rest of the day as we discovered an occupied

HOUSE MARTIN's

under the eves of one of the local residences

and looking like the paret birds just adding the

Final Touches
and while in that particular area we might as well give an update on the

MUTE SWAN FAMILY
which is still c7 cygnets strong and Shipshape and Bristol Fashion,
along with a variety of

MALLOW
and a childless mother

MOORHEN

eating her fill while puting quiet a differand slant on the song
Motherless Child - Eric Clapton
On to the Solar Panel Compound where we wont stop 'clicking' juvenile

MISTLE THRUSHES
until we've had enough and likewise the

Growing Band

of equally young

LINNETs
before finding our theme for the day growing side by side

DOG ROSE (left) and HONEYSUCKLE (right).