Actually a typo there; should read Celebrant not Celebration!!
MC came out to talk to Mum about Dad's 'eulogy' and was very helpful and understanding.
Prior to that on a brief visit to BL, a traffic-laden A31 caused the usual detour across the top of the forest, where the small bush at Deadmans Hill provided the ponies with some shade and encouraged them to block the road!! A little further on at the Fighting Cocks the donkeys were out in force also happy to cause some traffic chaos😁
On arrival Tracey kindly let me peruse the trap but little of note, although Copper Underwing spp was the first I'd seen in a while. Just Peach Blossom and Blood Vein below. No sign of any Lesser Emperors on the Silt Pond, just the usual four species plus damsels, although a nice Migrant Hawker was my first of the year and a Grass Snake slithered across from Ivy South Hide.
At Tern Hide J6x4 was in situ but, whilst plenty of birds, nothing of note; fifteen distant Black-tailed Godwits were the best.
At home Bombus leucorum joined the terrestris, lapidarius and Apis on lavender.
