There were a couple of new for year moths in the trap this morning, the highlight being the year's first Oak Eggar, now on 498 for the year.
Yard birding highlight of the day was related to another insect emergence that sent the local Med Gulls and Starlings into a feeding frenzy with over 300 Med Gulls and 250 Starlings around and also a flock of 60 Swift also appeared.
Oak Eggar
Narrow-winged Pug
Rhombic Leatherbug- the most interesting addition to the garden pan species list today. In addition to the 598 moth species and 109 bird species we've also had 19 butterflies, 5 dragonflies and damselflies and 188 all other taxa species recorded HERE. Addiitonally there's the mammals which I still need to update but from memory we've had Bank Vole (only this week co-habitating with the goose), Common Shrew, Mole, Brown Rat, Wood Mouse, Roe Deer, Pipiestrelle Bat, Western Hedgehog, Red Fox and Badger (in the lane) so I make that a total of 820 species living with our family here. That's even before we count the mini-zoo, pets and domesticated garden and house plants, trees, shrubs and food plants! Its not my family and other animals but My family and the other 1000 species :-)
While on the subject of the mini-zoo I had a bit of a shock this morning when I noticed that our Mexican Red Knee Tarantula had moulted and was lying on its back- the first time I've appreciated the size of it's fangs. Before we moved here we used to have 100 species in the mini-zoo (seems a nice round figure to maintain) but nowhere near that now. Will need to do some work on that in the winter to get back up to 100 species. From an holistic ecological perspective the domesticated animal space (pets and livestock) is an increasing feature of life on earth so trying to embrace that here aswell as all the amazing wild/naturalised biodiveristy.
The growth speed of the goose (Oatmeal) is incredible- its no longer getting bullied by the ducks
I've harvested all the potatoes now and put Nicotiana and Verbena in the pots for the autumn hawkmoths. On the mini-farm front we have got Raspberries, Strawberries, Blackcurrants, Lovage and Tomotoes in the fruit bed, Pumpkins, Sweetcorn, Sunflowers and Peas in the Three sisters guild bed and in the seasonal bed we've got Rhubarb, Spinach, Carrots and the last of the onions with water melons in the polytunnel (the mini-farm raised beds below).
On a quick side note, horrific scenes of starving kids in Gaza has been the backdrop to this week. Not sure about anyone else but I've never felt so powerless watching live streaming brutality on kids funded by our government and our tax money and realising that we have become the monsters that we were all supposed to stand agaisnt in the past (was that ever real?). Anyway, the benefit of finding a private home or land somewhere and just detach as much as possible from 'the system', divest from any investments which are contributing to the brutality, recycle profits into personal charity efforts rather than pay more tax that will go to support the IDF brutality, support as many local businesses and services as possible and put less money into the global markets and corporations overall (which are all Zionist heavily influenced not just the silly boycott list provided by the BDS) , work for yourself or a decent company and connect to nature and integrate as close as possible for resilience and therapy is IMHO the ultimate way of using our democratic powers to not support this brutality but instead to support regeneration and rennaisance of our planet and also to be able to withstand any harsh consequences that come to us all for our personal complicity in this horrific brutality if by any chance there does exist any type of natural justice on this planet. In the past, atrocities have been carried out and excused that people didnt know what was going on or were following orders on fear of death - that is not the case today, these atrocities are being live streamed to the world on a minute to minute basis and nobody has to follow any orders or are in fear of death if they do not comply with the system and it's processes . I really can't see any of this ending well- which is one of the reasons we are building a little nature fortress/ark here detached as much as possible from a destructive/declining system, although the main reason is that living naturally is just a really nice way of life- which is a much appreciated priviledge.
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