Little Old Wine 'Drinker' Me - Dean Martin

Having just experienced more than 24 hours of sporadic and sometimes
heavy rain and the wind, occasionally reaching up to 30 knots and visiting just about every
point of the compass bar the 16 we were hoping for, between
South East and South West,

expectations of a decent catch from the Moth Traps was not high.
NEVER COUNT YOUR CHICKENS
as despite all of that there were still some additions to the
Year List such as:-

LACKEY

 DRINKER

 the fabulously big and beautiful

LARGE EMERALD

EAR MOTH
plus yet another

  EYED HAWK-MOTH

We make no apology for the quality of the following images/footage,
as it is difficult enough for me to see a

WREN
 let alone get it in the view-finder

 and as they are juveniles to boot

 we consider it something of a privileged to have seen them.

Also in Harbins Farmhouse Garden along with the Wrens have been the

usual common fare:-

BLACKBIRD

 GOLDFINCH

 in waiting and

 on the feeders,

juvenile

BLUE TIT

 along with

a decent number of

COLLARED DOVE, 

 but no sign of any juveniles yet, and the odd

 CHINOOK

to shatter the tranquillity.

A little further afield we found our first

 LARGE SKIPPER

of the year plus a

SMOOTH SNAKE

which have, by and large, been keeping a very low profile.

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