Wet stuff

Moth Quiz 4

In like a lion, out like a lamb
Answer:   March Moth 

Moth Quiz 5

Aleph, Vav, Yud, Number 1 in April.


Tuesday, April 28 

What excitement. Early yesterday morning I managed to book a delivery spot on North Walsham Sainsbury's web site. So good to make a large shop on a very easy to use site. Neighbours have been very good about shopping for us, but we don't like to ask them to get too much at a time. Lovely to be independent too.

Delivery day, Friday morning at 11- 12 o'clock 

Meale's should be delivering Alpine grit and growbags to-day. Pam found picking the tender stem broccoli very difficult last year. We're trying bags on an old two-tier strawberry frame this year. Placed outside the back door too, so very convenient.

Our Tuesday two hours out was productive. Rai and Barbara's House Martins performed for me on the way out to the car and we added Lesser Whitethroat and Garden Warbler to the year list.

New growth ivy is a paler, softer, green, which makes it look more vulnerable than the tough, parasitic plant it lives to be. Both birds and insects love it.

 

We left home in light rain and found it to be falling very patchily (is that even a word?). Some roads dry, others wetter that at home. It had obviously increased at home after we left as a wet Adrian had already left with Sam. He was due to plant the beetroot seedlings to-day. We really need the rain after such a long dry spell, it's not enough though. Pam will have to brave it shortly as the sunflower hearts feeders are empty yet again. By far the birds' favourite, although the fat balls go quickly too.

Stop reading now David B, it's moths, many of us love them. 😉

Yesterday's moth catch was the best so far this year. 36 macro moths + 1 micro, making 19 species in all. Including the micro, a Light Brown Apple, five of them new for the year.

Cinnabar

Grey Pine Carpet

Iron Prominent

Silver Y. An immigrant