...is not always successful.

 No moths on Saturday night despite pretty good conditions, I ought to trap tonight really but I've got an early work start tomorrow and stuff to do tonight. Nothing much of interest in the trap but the house walls have yielded some bits and bats with piles of Porcellio spinicornis everywhere. I don't usually see many of these, but then I haven't examined the walls at night at this time of year previously.

Porcellio spinicornis.

Best though were these two weevils.

Otiorhynchus porcatus.

Only found two of these previously, both in the garden this year, smart wee beasts.

Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Vine Weevil).

Common, and a bit of a pest as well but still a good looking animal.

Althoough it was a Large White Butterfly pupa, it was striking looking. Not too well hidden on the Sycamore bough so this was not a surprise, Robin the culprit I suspect.

Large White pupa, RIP.

Woodcock in the garden yesterday. Blackcap again today. The Blackcap was trying to eat the apples on sticks but the territorial Robin would not let him, he'd land on the bamboo cane, get nearly to the apple and the Robin would fly in and chase him off. I've never seen the Robin eat the apples so odd behaviour.

Duck count days this weekend, nothing exceptional. A Chiffchaff (just an ordinary one) near Loch of Sabiston was the most interesting thing.

Watched the SEED Ensemble at the Barbican last night. It was a tribute to Pharoh Sanders, who was 80 yesterday. Amazing musicianship, but somehow much of it didn't work for me, perhaps the lack of audience (English lockdown) threw them off. However, the good thing, it got me listening to the man himself today. The Live in Paris album is well worth a visit plus the top five in the Spotify list. Love is Everywhere is better on the original album version (the list version), checkout 1973 Wisdom Through Music album; that's the song that worked best with SEED I thought (but very different). I'll probably pop along to the Barbican again on Wednesday with Shabaka Hutchings playing with the Britten Sinfonia - Shabaka's clarinet playing was a highlight from last night as he guested with SEED. Intrigued to hear Wednesday's music, might be a tad challenging tho. The Live in Paris Pharoh Sanders album will definitely be finding its way onto the (currently slightly neglected) 104 list (see my pages above).