A day off today allowed for some mid week Moff action, to be honest I wished I had stayed in bed. There was a few nice ones, but numbers and species were disappointing. Best were Old Lady and the fist Sallow of the Autumn.
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| Sallow |
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Old Lady
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Only 41 moth species as the temperature dropped away quite a lot with clear skies. Very few new birds in the nets undoubtedly the best was the first Grasshopper Warbler of the Autumn.
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| Grasshopper Warbler |
The most interesting thing today in my mind was an invasion of hoverflies, there was 100s if not 1000s about. They were on every flower, I have no idea as to identity so if anyone actually reads this and knows, please let me know.
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| Just a few of the Hoverflies |
Hi Uncle Birdy!
ReplyDeleteSpotty here!
There are lot's of hover flies in my garden too. They look like wasps!
I am interested in the competition you are having with the Norwegian man, I hope you win. That'll teach them, coming over here in the eighth century and doing all that raping and pillaging. What is pillaging?
I myself have also seen over two hundred birds this year, but most of them were Herrings Gulls at Scarborough on the weekend, when I went to see my Aunty Doreen.
We didn't have tea tonight so I am really hungry, my Mum said she would cook an octopus but it kept reaching out and turning off the gas, so it was pot-noodle (again ).
Nice pictures on the blog
Spotty ( Herbert )