So Beautiful - Simply Red

 The only change in fortunes as far as the home Moth Traps were concerned was that of the former Insect 'robber', the juvenile Robin, was the appearance of a replacement

female

BLACKBIRD
while on the Heath there was very little to rob with the best of a sorry bunch being a welcome

OAK BUSH CRICKET

maybe second generation
POPLAR HAWK-MOTH

along with a
GREAT DIVING BEETLE
while being entertained by the local

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

which has not been seen to go in, or come out of the nest hole?
With Fungi not being our forte and time limits on publishing the post

we clicked away despite that as maybe

giving the reader a chance to research it!
By now the EXODUS headline may be getting a little worn out, with the direction of flight being the same as we clapped eyes on a distant and very mobile

COMMON REDSTART

which we will

MILK

for all it is worth

as only the 3rd record

across the 10 years

we have been observing this plot.

QUALITY over QUANTITY

 it might be said!

Sweet Painted Lady - Elton John

 It was Saturday evening that once again we hosted and warmly welcomed the 

 

‘Human Pheromone’

(shrouded in bright colours from above the following morning)

a.k.a. Dave Foot

(which of course also heralded the rain - so be it)
after a series of veiled moans and groans, via these pages, reference the lack of Moths previously!
It was left to his Dave-ship to set the traps in motion that evening and in so doing recorded

NIGHTJAR's

not only hawking Insects but also 'churring' (singing) which seemed a little late in the year as they have surely commence the southern migration by now.
On the face of it the traps looked to be packed to the rims and we were not to be disappointed as first out of the hat were a couple of 'first for the year' (as all the following Moths are)

HEATH RUSTIC
and

TAWNY SPECKLED PUG
interspersed by other creatures mostly spotted by Dave such as a

delightful

YELLOW WAGTAIL
more Moths including

DUSKY THORN
and

BUFF FOOTMAN
then just to break with tradition my own contribution of an

extremely distant, can you see it yet, almost centre in the bare branches?

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

going through all the functions including drumming, preening, feeding and singing,
but back to the business in hand with

WHITE-LINE DART
and the fairly similar

ARCHERS DART

the exquisit

GOLD RINGED DRAGONFLY
a brace of Pug species

WORMWOOD PUG
and

CURRANT PUG

SALLOW

SMALL COPPER
(Butterfly)

OBLIQUE CARPET

and as is the want of us here Gentlemen, we complete the Post with a stunning

PAINTED LADY

Because They're Young - Duane Eddy

 With little more than a week left of Summer we just knew we would 'hit the buffers' before Autumn arrived! Maybe considered something of a cop out, all we have is an update of the progress of the

LITTLE GREBE CHICK
which abandonded the nest some days ago and has since been well tended by both parent birds.

Ballet Practice

In the clips can be heard

both the

low key chatter of the

juvenile
(the whole family)

and the more harsh

calls

of the parent birds.

Being well fed by Mum and Dad.

Hopeing for more to please tomorrow?