In week 4 of lockdown it was my time to be off the rota at school. To make this "holiday" feel a bit more like a holiday and not a continuation of the sessile new normal we decided to pitch a tent and have a bit of a camping break at home with some maghreb infusion. The weather was certainly hot and I cooked a veggie tagine in the outdoor oven, Moroccan lamps festooned the pergola and fairy lights twinkled.
Star of the show though, on day 2, was the male Emperor Moth attracted to the pheromone lure I bought a week or two ago. What a stunning creature.
Increasingly longer walks out across the fields have been productive with Yellow Wagtails and Wheatears arriving in favored fields. To add to these colorful migrants a stunning male Marsh Harrier, seeming to hunt continuously to feed his harem of incubating females, Peregrines bringing in food and a pair of Grey Partridge nesting in the field behind the house.
Deer are also frequenting our fields with obiquitous Muntjac, ever increasing herds of Roe Deer and a reaquantance with the lone Chinese Water Deer that has been frequenting the ditches across Quanea for a couple of years now.
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