A very smart moth turned up in the back of the car yesterday morning! I can only assume it was attracted to a recent moth trap session, but went undetected, and got packed away amongst rubbish bound for the local dump a day or two later! If this is the case, the moth also went to Bournemouth and Keyhaven! It was very easy to find in the Lewington Moth field guide as it is the species on the spine cover! A Herald.

By the time I saw it in the evening, it was motionless, and appeared dead, which gave me great cause for concern.. Could I count it on my garden list?! Fortunately, it must have been in a severe state of torpor (sp.) for when night fell it was gone in an instant. Into the darkness, and onto the garden list!

Popped into the birdforums web site over the weekend.. As some of you may remember, I was banned a year ago for winding up the Moderators, and basically having too much non-bird related fun on there.

Pick of the recent threads is a prime example of what happens when people dearly want something to be a rare bird (fortunately punctuated by more experienced, methodical observers). I suspect this is the kind of thing that happens everyday at twitches involving mass hallucinations, and people going home having ticked the wrong bird! http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=150474

p.s. Is it just me, or do the Axillaries of the curlew in the above thread look like they have been airbrushed white!? The dark markings seem to end very abruptly at the smooth white area, and then continue further down the flank in one case LOL.