Variety

The uptick in heat and downtick in rain has helped a few moffs to get out and about, and while there's not huge variety in species, [let alone huge numbers, not any more...] there is a fair variety in the quality of shots my deranged camera will let me take. Including if it will let me take pictures at all, sometimes...

Anyways, here's a few,

Portland Ribbon Wave

Much better than previous efforts!

Another, not too bad.

Yellow-barred Brindle

Light Emerald

One day I'll get a Large....

Yellow Shell

Large Yellow Underwing

Could this be a worn immigrant

Lewes Wave?

Brought over with the continental air mass in the September heatwave?

Mullein Wave

Snout

[very dark one]

Realllllly dark one. I used flash and upped the brightness, to little avail.

Mecyna asinalis

Same sp., more light

This is one of those 'technically a micro but FFS' species. You know, like these things;

Lazy Hedgers' Woe*

For those who haven't seen one, it's about the size of a Peacock butterfly!

Anyways,

Angle Shades

Brimstone

I have various Crambids [some quite well-focussed, and several species, even ::gasp:: but I suppose I'll spare you [this time].

I also have post Up on t'Moor [or is it posts? I can't remember, 'tis too hot...] but sticking two up is my limit for today.

Be Seeing You...

[[* My preferred name for Box Tree Moth, which can devastate quick-growing but non-native hedging plants. My response is  'Plant frickin' Holly or Beech!'       Ahem. ]]

So I Stood About In The Blazing Sun And Buzzing Jaspers

For a couple of hours, because I couldn't think of anything better to do for lunch.

Exminster, scrapes and lagoon

[just]

Zooming in a bit

I may have been wondering about a report of 5 Ruff from the day before...

As you can see if you look carefully, [and after about an hour and a half...] this was indeed accurate!

Zoom in more

Another one

I never got all 5 in one shot, though. A bit mobile and a lot of Sedge and Noisy Gits.

Also a couple of Pintail, a few Gadwall, several Little Grebe

No idea what it was

after on a scrape..??

And

Common Darter on

Granny-Pop-Out-Of-Bed

Helophilus pendulus,

likewise

14-Spot Ladybird on

Lucerne

Copper Greencloak on

tarmac

Bloody Cranesbill

Frosty Funnel...

Or is it Ivory Funnel?

Under deciduous trees [Frosty] but growing in grass [Ivory]. One is possibly edible, the other very much deadly....

Feeling lucky?

Maybe go to the shops instead.

And on that cheery note, I shall

Be Seeing You...

:)

Look! Wheatear! Pt.2, Up There

After slight technical difficulties, we resume. Now still less than two weeks out of date yay! a bit further behind, but never mind, eh?

If I can remember what the vickers I was actually going to be going on about....????

Er...

Ummmmm

Oh yes, a trip up on t'Moor with t'Folks and t'Canis horribilis salivatus, where we Defied the Rain, Crossed the River and Were Rewarded.

Oh yes.

A similar route to one I took earlier in the year, we went from Whiteworks to the Hingston Hill Row, then had lunch at Combeshead Tor, before passing Eylesbarrow Mine to Higher Hartor Tor, stopping for a cuppa in some workings, then heading back up the Crystal Path.

Simples, yes?

Well, I started out a bit - no not accurate - a LOT rainier than the lying forecast told. But we had waterproofs and determination and so we persevered. We got past frisky coobeasties [frisky in 'considering violence', not anything x-rated...], over boggy ground, and even defeated a 'much larger than any previous time I crossed it' watercourse.

Let's have some pics, shall we?

Hingstone Hill

Not the longest or tallest row on t'Moor, but my favourite.

The weather had started to behave by this point!

Earlier...

Looking at Leather Tor

Later...

Sheeeepstor from

Combeshead Tor

And, oh yes, that title;

"Flapjack!"

Just the one, near the Plym.

Nearby, we found

Poor Shrew

Happy Sexton Beetle

[plus mite!]

And as it is getting on for that time of year [well, it was when we were out, bit more like frickin' July now...], a few fungi!

Goblet Waxcap

Pink Waxcap

Bell-shaped Mottlegill

Egghead Mottlegill

Mostly dung species up there, but a few waxcaps were nice to find.

And finally,

Arse!

:)

Ahem.

Be Seeing You...

Look! Wheatears! Pt.1, Down Here

Bit of a spoiler, that title, but never mind, eh?

So, Patrolling The Patch - when I could summon the energy to get out, and indeed once my shark bite had healed enough - gave results mostly at the Nose [oh, what a shock].

It hadn't started very well, [though running into a couple of the Irregulars was a good point], at least on a birding side, with a few flutterbies;

Holly Blue

Wall

[hardcore version]

Wall

[those eyespots work, then]

Jersey Tiger

ID the Hoverfly 1

ID the Hoverfly 2

ID the Grasshopper

Ok, ok, stopping with that.

Now this, this is

an ovipositor!

What. A. Wasp.

Bee Darwin Wasp

Enough invertebrates!

Three Grey Seals

Fine, fine, no more teasing.

Here you go,

Wheatear!

Wheatears!

Five lovelies at the Nose, an adult female and four juveniles. Woo.

Also at least 19 Oyks on the Lead Stone, though only a few Gannets offshore and a scattering of Chiffs in the bushes.

And finally;

Set in a wall on IMD

A lovely chunk of Permian brecciomerate, showing a wide variety of clasts. Near [vertical] face is cut, upper face weathered. Though obviously not in exposure, I'm pretty sure it's rotated 90°, with 'up' being to the right. Three units, coarsening up, with different clast sources to boot. :D

I'll limit myself to that.

[This time]

Be Seeing You...