"Rosie" - Don Partridge (Part II)

Another Brain Storm on yesterday's Post the plant is HERB Robert not Lord Robert!

 Just as a reminder as to the end of yesterday's Post

where we had clocked up our 3rd pair, an unpresedented c6 individuals in a single day, we continue as ever at the Moth Traps.

Those done, we took more than a cursory look across the

Late Bronze Age Tumili

in the Main Solar Panel Compound to establish if there is any activity there

which looks promising so worthy of a
Dusk Vigil. Little, or maybe that should read 'nothing' across the first circuit until reaching the 'hard standing' again, and would you Adam and Eve it

what surely must have been yet another, quite seperate, further c2

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
while remembering this is part 2 of the same day we sped off to check that the former pair were still there, which was the case, bringing the complete day tally to c8 individuals!

All else within

was at first

a jaunty male

WHEATEAR

joined in due course

and maybe predictably by an

equally smart

female

unusually

only our 'second' such pair of the year, while a 'lucky snap' found the

male in company briefly with a male
STONECHAT
all else were these wayside blooms

on our way home a clump of

COLUMBINE oy GRANNY'S BONNET if you will.

Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground (Part II)

 Having  dodged the heavy showers thus far and sorted the last few First for Year Moths, hopes were not particularly high of finding Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-Moth on the wing, which we will come to later, but for starters a few more First for Year Moths, which had been laying in abeyance were added to the list, including

CURRENT PUG

PALE MOTTLED WILLOW

along with

CLOUDED BORDERED BRINDLE

HEART and DART
and

SMALL CLOUDED BRINDLE
(not an inspiring bunch but grist to our own personal mill)

With the hedge-line at this particular gateway having produced singing and breeding
Garden Warbler
across most years of our tenancy, but maybe just a little early yet?

At the first circuit of the Heath Birds seemed to be almost nonexistant while plantlife was abundent.

no surprises when

RED CAMPION
became the first of these and followed by the equally attractive

BULBUS BUTTERCUP

before a change in fortunes found us clocking a rather dark skinned

SMOOTH SNAKE
which quickly disapeared and continued the ongoing theme with no more than a small cluster of

HERB ROBERT
with not a single migrant bird seen across the morning but at least the local

MEADOW PIPIT
didn't let us down.

while most of the tracks were found to be carpeted by the attractive

ROCKY STONECROP
followed by the first of the year

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE
(we now await Banded)
all else under the 'covers' amounted to no more than this

ANT'S NEST

as the new generation of
PINES
take a toe-hold and have to be eradicated should the whole area be changed from Moor to Forest.     
Across the main body of the Heath the Best was certainly saved until Last as the familiar song of a number of

WOODLARK
were heard with this

ADULT

feeding c2 juveniles, but that was not the end of it as around the corner among the old

W.W. II R.A.F.
buildings it was certainly worth the extra mile to see if the
Broad-bordered Bee Hawk Moths
were on the wing and feeding on the hardly opened flowers of the

RHODIDENDRON
Not quite ready yet, but no prizes for guessing where we will be next Sunday!

and maybe an opportune moment to thank those around me for their continuing help, John for the Plantlife (herein) and other with Paul, Dave and Phil with Moths and other Insects - Cheers Gents!

Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground (Part One)

 The overnight weather of Saturday into Sunnday with its frequent and heavy showers egged on by gusts of fresh easterly wind, didn't seem condusive with any kind of success from the Wild World, but the mood changed when looking throught he the perspex collar of the first

MOTH TRAP
to find a plethora of Insects but mainly Caddisflies! On closer inspection there were found to be 70 individual Macro Moths of 37 Species with half-a-dozen of them first-for-the- year such as:-

the daytime flying
CINNABAR

shiny as its name suggests

BURNISHED BRASS

VINE'S RUSTIC

OAK HOOK-TIP

LIME-SPECK PUG
along with a

BLOOD-VEIN
While it is well known that we don't venture into the realms of Micro Moths (usually the very small ones, with a number of exceptions) when the likes of

SMALL MAGPIE
happen along with the smallest of

SNAILs
they too seem worthy of a Blog Spot!
Between uping and downing bouts of operating the Gamp we also recorded close to home a

SONG THRUSH

hunting, presumably for a hungry new family, while also close to home these c2

WOOD PIGEONs

engaged in a Bath and Dhobie maybe prior to the nuptuals along with a considered smart looking bird indee, right outside of the door, a

ROOK

until all were flushed by the clatter of the

COASTGUARD

HELICOPTER
Despite the inclement weather we managed to make a 2-Parter of the day and while heading for the HEATH

another brace of
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

were noted along with there all-time friend the

COCK PHEASANT

PART II TOMORROW