I say " nearly" because "Bird of the day" was actually a moth. There was a Silver Y on our gatepost. It's not a misprint for "silvery" either. It has an actual " Silver Y" marking on each wing. It was the first moth I learned to identify back in the long-distant early mornings when I used to go to The Flat Controller's Little Empire before going to "real" work. I haven't seen one for ages. Which is why it "beat" a later-in-the-day Med Gull. It was " Mothman", one of the FC's other minions, who taught me all about moths. Unlike me, he cleared off long before the famous " chucking-out" incident. A wise move, with hindsight. 112-in-which-i-get-thrown-out.html It was him and me who took the moth trap into the hut one sultry summer dawn and opened it up , only to be faced with about 8000 LARGE Yellow Underwings rising out of the trap like, like, er, like the Greater Magellanic Cloud. We could only really count them by "The Approximate Net-Full" system." When I got to work an hour or so later, it was the start of a slow release of said LARGE Yellow Underwings throughout the morning, each one appearing through my shirt-sleeves, trouser-bottoms and the collar/neck aperture. A few more appeared once I had got home. You might think that was all a bit scary ... but I'm alright .....
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