More Moffs

Because.

Swallowtail Moth!

Wow.
Yes, it's a 'common one', but not here. Also sooooo pretty.  :)

Riband Wave

First of the year and it's a cracker.

Great Oak Beauty

Buff Ermine

Oegoconia quardripuncta

Epagoge grotiana

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Snout sp.??

[marked more like an Old Lady]

Small Dusty Wave

Large Yellow Underwing

[deceased]

Pediasia fascelinella

[I think]

Another

A third

I think these three are all the same sp., and P. fascelinella seems to fit best, though it's supposed to be 'rare', so ??

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Lots of these this year.

Variant

Dark Marbled Carpet

Spinach

[Why? It's yellow and eats berry bushes...]

Snout

having a conflab with the Spinach!

Riband Wave

f. remutata

Foxglove Pug

Catoptria falsella

Teleopsis difinis

Possibly a Crambid missing its labial palps?

Tortrix sp.

So many Dwarf Cream Wave

Lots of moffs. And more will be coming later...
[But I've got to stop adding and start posting at some point!]



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Flaming June. Part 3; A Soggy Bottom

No, they don't get any better.

The hot weather finally 'broke' [at least in theory] at the end of last month with some actual water falling from the sky. Though not much. Also the wind blew and as Summer Seawatching Season is on, I did what must be done. To the Nose!!


It was not the Nose of Yore, though, as someone's been parking grate big bladdy ships all over the view...

Special offer on artificial islands...

'What's the problem?' some may ask. Well, though they do make very handy reference points for calling directions [or they would if anyone else had been mad hard enough to be there!] they also act as artificial islands. And the thing about islands is that birds like to pass outside them. [For one thing, it makes it slightly harder to get Peregrined] Usually - if you're say, a sexy big shearwater - well outside them.

Yes, now you get it.

In the last Great Disaster, parked ships cut my seabirds down horribly, and I fully expect to get the same. Indeed, you only have to compare numbers with Berry Head, let alone Start Point;

I got 19 Balearics in 3.5 hours. Berry had 188 in 9.5, Start 425 in 9 [and Prawle 329 in 7.25]. Wow.

Though you should also note that the Backwater and Fraggle Rock each got 2, so..... Perhaps, location in Lyme Bay was also a factor [I suspect the birds were sticking fairly well south and west].

Same time; 138 Manx and one very interesting 'shearwater sp.' with grey-brown uppers, a dusky undertail and white belly.. [0805-0807 - picked up early doing a big shear impression..!]. What was presumably the same bird provoked much interest when it went past the Great and the Good at BH. A word beginning with Y may even have been used. I, of course, couldn't possibly comment.

 Ahem.

Also 4 Puffinses, a Bonxie trolling through, 2 Arctics into the Bay, and a scattering of lone terns.

Never mind 'what's that blob', SPOT that blob!!

:)

[It's a Balearic, btw]

Tern ID for the truly hardcore

Leafhopper sp.

At least you can see it!




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Flaming June. Part 2; Thirty Degrees......

'Get there early'*


Usually sage advice. I got there early on a very hot day [you'd never have guessed, would you?] and tried my best to find and even photo butterflies beginning with 'White'.

I pretty much lost.

I did get the usual posing Demoiselles, though;

Beautiful Demoiselle

Well-named

What else did I find? Well, two White Admirals which were very active and not stopping, and no WLH at all. I was truly shocked, I can tell you.

7+ SW Frits [and a single DG] also about and one, just one, stopped very briefly;

Silver-washed Fritillary

Not bad.

Comma

Not great.

Common Cow-wheat

Always kills me that there's so much of this around but not one Heath Frit...

Lovely scenery

As the temperature in this sheltered spot hit 30°, I hit the road...
[It thought about melting]



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[[*Unlike my posting, which is usually verrrry late...]]

Flaming June. Part 1; At Heart [and weird on top]

With heat building, I had to scramble to get my Number One Priority completed;

Wild Tor!!

Yes, at last I could get back up on t'Moor and go to my favourite tor. I defied blazing Sun and frisky wind and was in turn defied by about 9 tons of beef, but well, like the photo says....

:D

Wild Tor!

Despite it being a weekday in theoretical term time, I had a whole 20 mins of glorious isolation before hordes converged from all points of the compass, including one chap who wanted to chat.. Chat.... ::shudders::

[[What? Don't you know me by now?]]

[[And yes, I was the model of friendly helpfulness, thank you very much.]]



But let us wind back a bit...

Behold, a photo walk across t'Moor. With only the odd distraction for interesting lifeforms.. :)

First glimpse of Wild Tor!

On the way

Egghead Mottlegill

First fungus of the Autumn..!

White Moor Circle..

..and some of said beef!

They were there to stay, so I bid them happy steakness [what?] and left them to it.
O:)

Lizard!

Wheatear!!

One of the Hound Tors

Wild Tor!

Another Wheatear!

Lunch with a view;

The Wilhay to Steeperton Tor

Hangingstone Hill

Everyone and their mad runners having decided to go to Wild Tor, I curtailed lunch and extended my walk a bit..
The view from up there is very impressive but not so photoable. I do have a panorama mode on my camera, but it doesn't translate to blagger so well. Wander up and see it for yourself. [It's worth the climb. Honest]. Onward;

Spot the peat pass...!

"I'm not Edible!"

Common Frog

The path's obvious

[when you're on it...]

Cottongrass

Watern Tor

Looking through the Thurlestone

Adorable

Awwww

Ahem.

Looking off the edge

Castle Drogo.

Now freed from the world's largest tent

Redstart!!

:D

Great end to a great day.



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[["This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top", naturally.]]

Service Note

I'm still here.

For now.

This may still change without warning, so...::Shrugs::


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