Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Yesterday, I disturbed this tiny T-shaped creature as I did some clearing up in the garden. It's one of the earliest of the plume moths to emerge and probably the commonest (Emmelina monodactyla); a garden first.
Today I got down to some serious housework; when Greger came home from his meeting in Banbury he ordered me to go out in the sun as it was such a gorgeous day. Who am I to argue?
Down at Dorney the wintering white-fronted geese were on the common flood; a shelduck was also there.
The usual Cetti's warbler was foraging in the low branches on the waterline; and after a while a water rail came out of the undergrowth in the ditch and went hunting.
The rail soon came scurrying back with something in its bill, and from the rather odd, spout-like shape I have an idea it was a leech. But it might just have been a tiny fish.
The chiffchaffs continue to bewilder me; while a second Cetti's by the concrete wall made little effort to hide as it made its way along the stream.
// posted by Christine @ 3:00 PM 
