A Welcome Revisit

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Hummingbird Hawk Moth - Image © Elsewhere


I almost forgot... I was talking to my neighbour this afternoon when suddenly a Hummingbird Hawk Moth hove into view and started feeding at the Honeysuckle on the fence. I haven't seen one of these beautiful creatures for around five years - we had a summer/autumn when there were dozens of them feeding in the garden: again the first time they had been spotted here. A truly wonderful thing to behold and a welcome distraction from the follies of our own species, at present.

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  1. Joe Stoner31 August 2020 at 04:01

    As Kel knows I spent three "seasons" sailing and diving in the Med, coming home to earn the spondoolicks for the next "season". During one of these returns we were demolishing Shoreham Gas Works and Gordon & I witnessed the best sunset we'd ever seen from over 200ft up what could have been the set of "The end of the World" as we attacked it's giant, teetering steel frame with gas axes in gathering gloom. No safety helmets, rigging or boots just welding gloves, goggles, overalls and basketball boots, for verily we were very trendy and they gave reasonable support and grip! Health & Safety anyone!
    I've never seen such deep reds, greens and bright yellows it topped ALL that we'd seen in Cornwall and the Med. Wish I'd got photos:(((
    Reuben Woodford (Chairman of local fishig association) is telling me about the devastation that storm Francis (was it??) has wreaked: the redds have been stripped! The river, in parts, is down to the glacial scar-marks in the country rock! THAT was what I was hearing (for only the second time in thirty years) the boulders and gravel being ripped from the heart of the Ogwen! The subject line of our email thread is: "The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes"!
    Public Money for Public Good anyone???

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