"Breakfast at Tiffanie's" - Deep Blue Something

Across what was likely the most numerous catch of the year there were no species added to the Year Tally but good to see both

DOTTED BORDER

along with only our second

DOUBLE-STRIPED PUG 

while also recorded were what are considered to be c2 seperate species of

ICHNEUMON WASP

but it was then that it dawned on us that the lamp in this,

The Solar Panel Compound Trap  

has been burning continuously day and night for over a year now. We've certainly had full value out of that, plus there is every indication that we may well have the other 2 traps flashed up there by the end of the week? Otherwise, and lucky to be able to keep the promise of better images of yesterday's male

WHEATEAR

we firstly found the female above

followed by maybe the same

male of the day before?

but there's no chance of proving that.
Changing the tune slightly our second onlt Butterfly of the year a single

COMMA
followed by

numerous

GREAT TIT

overlooking the Heath a small number of

SISKIN
along with a 'jammy' shot of this

CHIFFCHAFF
about to tuck into breakfast, the 'dot' above.

Pretties for You - Alice Cooper

Editor's Note - There was a Post yesterday which for some reason, beyond our control, settled on Wednesday 15th of March?? For further information please contact The Gremlins!

 At last we started hitting into the vein of what may surely be described as the Pretty Things also an English Rock Band not to be confussed with Alice's Mob!

starting with

PINE BEAUTY

then ably backed up by the

STREAMER
not at all a common Insect around here!

Otherwise across a more or less dull day weatherwise, some light releif with still more

FIELDFARE

lingering than might be thought this far into Spring and

MAGPIEs
well into nest building with just the roof to be attached and still no signs of the

EGYPTIAN GOOSE

goslings

but adults still on the banks of the
Moors River
and if we call this plant

SELF HEAL
(which has an abundance of alternative names)
it will surely be
Purple Dead Nettle?

The Neighbour's

CATTLE

again free-ranging
and a few very smart

CHAFFINCH

starting to arrive with another reminder of the

Recent Gales

Out on the Wily, Windy Moor We Roll and Fall in Green - Kate

 In line with recent days again there were Moths found in all of the traps amounting 14 Insects of 4 species before the delight of finding a single pair of

LITTLE GREBE
displaying on both ponds followed by this

FOX
hampering our entry to the Solar Panel Compound which along with the few Moths this

GREEN SANDPIPER

was spotted in the margins and before exit our second

BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLY
of the year while at the party gate with the Heath

where grows this small clump of not yet in flower
HONEYSUCKLE

we found, netted, consigned to the 'cool-box' and then 'clicked' for posterity and our valued readership this also First for Year

HUMMINGBIRD HAWK-MOTH
on the strength of which we decised to give the Heath a further looking at and to put the Horse before the Cart can report that we did not 'see' a single Bird on the ground during that full hour. However, we did 'hear' both drumming Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker close to the rifle range, a number of Chiffchaff at the gateway and an unknown number of Stonechat across the

Heart of the Heath.
No signs of the Goats as we neared the fenced off area so turned our attention to all else around us

including the cone bearing

PINES

The Naked Aspens, always last to come into leaf, with the Gorse
which may be in flower during any month of the year.

It wouldn't be a proper visit without turning the Reptile / Small Mammal Covers (bottom left) where from under the 16 we found

both

SAND LIZARD
and

SLOE WORM
with a bonus

FIELD VOLE
and we need not have feared for the absence of the

GOATS

as they raced towards us

on exiting.