Traps Dusted Off

 Saturday February 5

Having a foot person visit at home is pure bliss. He is good and painless. Digging out my ingrowing nail corners has often been both painful and bloody. Neither on both occasions Richard has visited. I am otherwise lucky that I have no hard skin nor corns, nor any other foot problem. Pam had hers done by him for the first time and was equally happy. 

There is always time left for a drive to St Benet's. Even on a very dark day when the sun seemed to have stayed in bed.  We soon located a herd of swans well away from the road on what we call swan corner. A wider area of muddy grass where it is possible to park off the road. Despite the intervening reeds and trees, I positively identified both Bewick and Whooper Swans, with a few Mute, in the total of about twenty four. 

We then found a family of four Cranes in a trackside field, 2 adults and  two young birds. 

 




Apart from a few Buzzards and a Kestrel, there was nothing else flying in the half an hour we stayed. 

Pam has been able to put the moth traps out again this past week, encouraged by a rise in temperature and cloudy nights. Five species of macro moths and three species of micro has been the reward. 

 

Chestnut

March Moth 

Early Moth

Pale Brindled Beauty

Spring Usher

 

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