Harry Lime - Again

 A glorious

MACKEREL SKY
heralded the new day while a number of First for the Year Moths had been deposited into the traps.

DUSKY BROCADE

CREAM WAVE
and

BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING

while at both pond the situation darkens as mostly
GREATER REED MACE

masking our veiw

of the remaining

LITTLE GREBE FAMILY

but there may have been others??

The rest of the Post is more or less given over to Plant Life with the

SAINT JOHN'S WORT
in fine display with the

first

TEASELs
pushing through and

more evidence that there might just be a crop of

ACORNS
this Autumn while again we are reluctant to let the nest building

SWALLOW
pass without a click or a clip, with the same applying to an

oscillating

LIME HAWK-MOTH
while closer to home we note the

RASPBERRIES
are ripening nicely so let

'scrumping' season begin!

FUNGI
right outside the door!

On the Crest of a Wave

 Well a 'third' gone already and Summer still hasn't visited us full force as when not drizzling it's blowning, and when neither the nights remain chill, but as usuall something happens along

while first out of the Moth Traps a succession of Small Fry,
but all First's for the Year, starting with
DWARF CREAM WAVE

SMALL SCALLOP

SINGLE-DOTTED WAVE

TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE
drawing us closer to the 300 Macro Moth Mark now having reached 272!
Most of the rest of the day kept us close to home and mainly in the garden attracted by what might be described as the Second Generation of Bird Song and maybe pointing to new nestlings?

COMMON WHITETHROAT
here have already seen a decent return on their efforts with a number of

JUVENILES
some trying out their vocals

before another case of Foot in the Mouth.
It was not many days ago that we reported the lack of activity from the

European Cargo Fleet

when one cut across our none to blue sky.

Next of the Garden Songsters  were a 'pair' of

BLACKCAP
(female)

while at the Main Pond the
CANADA GOSLINGs
still growing apace with the

BINDEWEED

looking at its best while by no means 'daily' or even 'monthly'

something of a stranger in the camp by way of a lone

NUTHATCH

while it's true to say that the

BUDDLLIAH
(or Butterfly Bush)
ain't looking bad either while dependent on point of view,
Best 'Till Last

particularly in the garden

again partly vocal a

LESSER WHITETHROAT

One Man Went to Mow

 We thought it a good idea to leave 'Best until First' just for a change as plucking the delightful, and 'one of the all time favourites',

from the first trap early doors

CLOUDED BUFF
as an addition to the Year List and soon after a 'second' but far less fetching

COMMON RUSTIC
with back-up crew of the

Eye catching

PEACH BLOSSOM
and

DINGY MOCHA
and before reaching the ponds found the

SWALLOWs
in building mode again an activity we are not prepared to pass by!

We should not have been surprised to find a couple of almost newly hatched

MOORHEN
at the Irrigation Pond but just out of shot the Grey Heron

appeared to be patiently waiting?

The last day of

Nettle Mowing

seems not to have been to the liking of the lone juvenile

LAPWING

while hoping for its return and the first signs of the return of

MISTER MOLE
and it was pleasing at the Gravel Pit to find the return of a pristine pair of

GADWALL

female

male
while the

TUFTED DUCKs

pleasured themselves by attacking the
Little Grebes

as the imported

HIMALAYAN BALSAM
comes to life

while the last of the
ELMs
seems to be ending its days??