Today I had a nice calm and short day.  The day was begun with moths which is always a good start.  Last time we set the trap we got 424 moths which was impressive.  This time we got 18.  But what beautiful moths they were. The first one was a new one for me: the Nut-Tree Tussock.  This moth is wonderful for two reasons A) It is nice and furry and B) They eat Hazel trees, the tastiest of trees.

Nut-tree tussock

 We also had a couple of Engraileds:

Engrailed

 And a very beautiful Herald:

Herald

After mothing which took only an hour I headed back to the office to do the sorts of important things that people do in offices.  There was no laminating involved unfortuantely but I had fun making new wildflower signs for the boardwalk.  One of my trees was Blackthorn, a tree I like because of the pretty flowers and giant infective thorns.  I also did Elder.  Actually maybe Elder is the tastiest of trees?  The tastiest berry bearing tree for sure.

Blackthorn blossom

 I went past the pond in the wildlife garden and it is filled with tadpoles and frogs.  In the next couple of weeks I will hopefully be going out to check out the ponds for newts.  http://www.newthunt.org/  Newt hunting is a very exciting sport, one of the only sports I am interested in in fact.

Frogs

I will be disappeared for the next few days as I will be going to visit the my beloved Jack2 in England.  I will report back with lovely pictures of Farne Island bird life.