Monday 8 August 2016

Childless Blashford!!

A quiet day with no family activities and a quiet rummage through the trap with Bob and Tracy over a cuppa. Only four or five species which I have not had in the garden yet including this Poplar Hawkmoth and Pale Prominent although Archer's Dart was a new species; I should probably have made more effort to get a decent photo.

















Birds were pretty thin with just Buzzard(8), Sparrowhawk and Hobby, probably 30 each of House and Sand Martin, two Swifts which could well be last of the year, 50 Egyptian Geese and 60+ Grey Herons. All Common Terns now gone.
Highlight was probably a single female type Redstart pumping its tail sat atop a fence post.