Oh, Stithy and no website....

I gave up! I have done… what… 80% of the website but have run out of steam (I am currently designing another two for clients, with the aid of my partner and UK Duty Paid Cutters Choice…). So, I have not had time to spend finishing off the further 20%... so back to the blog!

Stithians Reservoir.

Tracee and a dearly befuddled friend went to Falmouth for the day and left me in the wonderfully tranquil reservoir that is Stithians. I did plan to walk around it, but as I had to stop every few meters to inspect the undergrowth for insects, I didn’t get very far.

Upon entering I was greeted with a wonderful warbling from some Willows and spent some time watching the Buzzard flitting back and too from its nest. A pair of Sparrow hawks circled one of the adjacent fields and a couple of Reed Buntings popped out now and again to see how my journey was progressing.

In the heat of the midday sun I could feel the ‘thermo insulating heat eliminating cool air system’ of the Tesco rucksack failing miserably to keep my back dry from the untold amount of sweat pouring from it but I knew I must continue, to find some illusive animal, to report back with my findings and become some overweight national hero. Well, I did continue…

I made it over the damn where I came across plenty of Drinker Moth Caterpillars. Unfortunately they were all dying... perhaps the heat or just bad season (not going into details on this)… but I managed to move a handful from the path back into the scrub.

A large group of gulls had gathered near to the ‘canoe lesson sailing club’ (does this place have a bar? I wanted a refreshing larger & lime but my reconnaissance mission to discover a licensed shed found nothing). I didn’t bother checking the gulls to see what oddities may be lurking in the gathering, but I assume there was something good I missed.

On the way back now and some Canadian Geese flew into another adjacent field and I managed to sit for 15 minutes photographing a Common Blue Damselfly.