The Final Countdown - Europe

 In fact the final pictorial episode across Madagascar.

"The train now standing at platform 1 is the 08:48 to Weymouth"

COMMON JERRY
not to be confussed with
Tom and Jerry

SNAIL TRAIL

SHORT-LEGGED GROUND ROLLER

EXOTICS

MADAGASCAR FODY
(male)

The Cattle are Lowing!

SICKLE-BILLED VANGA

A SPIDER WANDERS AIMLESSLY IN THE WARMTH OF A SHADOW

VILLAGE

KITLITZ PLOVER

WHO KNOWS WHAT LIES WITHIN?

LARVAE

SPECTACLED GREENBUL

"Into the great wide open, under the skies of blue, into the great wide open a reble without a clue"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

KNOB-BILLED and WHITE-FACED WHISTLING DUCKS

TOWN CENTRE and more TAXIS

BLUE VANGA

NOW THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A STRAW HAT!

OH, and ANOTHER

TOMB BAT

COMMON NEWTONIA

MONSIEUR HENRY de HEAULME

owner of the

SISAL FIELDS
and much else. A Baron by British Standards and a most welcome conversationalist.

HOOK-BILLED VANGA

GIANT CACTUS

NOT BANANAs AGAIN?

MADAGASCAR BEE-EATER

VILLAGE

MADAGASCAR FISH EAGLE

PLANTING the RICE PADDIES

COMMON BROWN LEMUR

THEY FIND SOMETHING IN EVERYTHING

MADAGASCAR WAGTAIL

MORE PADDIES
and finally

MADAGASCAR BULBUL
( GOODBYE MADAGASCAR - NOW WHERE SHALL WE GO NEXT?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

Is that the greatest performance ever in all of Rock 'n' Roll?

We'll let you know later as we need to grab another box of tissues!

ARGUS - Wishbone Ash

 Not exactly the way we had intended to start the new day as arriving on station to monitor the Moth Traps, we found the note-pad had been left in the car so a ⅓ of a mile both back and forth before we got the show on the road. Again there was no shortage of interest among the 278 macro Moths of 74 species with the following being added to the ‘year list’.

JULY BELLE

not to be confussed with the far moe scarce and sort after

 LEAD BELLE

of which we have only captured a single specimen in 13 years of trapping here!

SCALLOPED OAK
followed in turn by

GARDEN TIGER

and bringing up the rear-ranks a most welcome

MARBLED GREEN
at the very last knockings.

COLLARED DOVEs

came to be something of a feature of the day, but try as we may unable to find any young.

No difficulties with
DUNNOCK

but in the Race for Beauty it was lagging somewhat, but just wait a week or two.

Still no shortage of juvenile
STONECHAT

in fact a couple of dozen between the Heath and the Panels Compound
but Tale's of the Unexpected brought a brace of

COMMON SNIPE

well out of season across our neck of the woods!
On his visit last weekend Dave had already supressed (whoops) 'found' our most dainty and
eye-catching Butterfly here which performed very well for us after capture.

BROWN ARGUS
is a real beauty whether at 'closed-wing' perch

or with them open

but simply a Law Unto Itself when seen in a combination of both!
Single

RAVEN
continue to appear sporadically

at thier favoured perch but no signs of family parties as had been the way of things in the past
but even more of a surprise was the appearance of a male

TEAL
on the Gravel Pit

only our second ever July record
and finally another squab

juvenile
WOOD PIGEON
in the garden.
It would seem that the Post will attach some of our videos, but not others, so maybe a camera setting issue, so if you have any suggestions they would be welcome via the 'comments' facility at the bottom of the page!
For me the bands signature compossition which in 1974 they announced would never be played live again - a bolt out of the BLUES!
Wind forward to the

and as 'HEADLINERS' on the final day The Ash took to the stage at 23:00 and played until midnight. There was a financial penaty in place for ever minute after the Witching Hour that any band played but it wasn't going to deter Wishbone. Having left the stage, drummer Steve Upton returned and perch on his stool, raised his sticks high above his head before connecting with the snare in the unmistakable intro to

PHOENIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WIwkijLCAo

from the seminal album 

ARGUS

 and for further recommended listening from the same album the trilogy of Battle Hymns

Throw Down the Sword, The King Will Come along with The Warrior