The Music Room at Little Woolgarston - our terrific home for the week - and just a short walk along the downs from Corfe Castle (and the NT tea garden for sticky treats!).
Some gorgeous fungi near the cottage.
I decided to take the trap to help de-stress between spells of working on the book and it paid great dividends. 
V Moth - new for me
Foxglove Pug
Green Pug
Small Elephant Hawkmoth
Whitepoint
A visit to the Middlebeare and Arne area. This is Hartland NNR - a great area for drags - and lived up to expectations with 11 species in one afternoon between here and Arne. Liz and I also managed a breif but good view of a Sand Lizard at Arne which typically scarpered before the camera could be engaged!
Buck Sika Deer at Arne
Doe Sika Deer at Arne
Sundew on Middlebeare
Common Lizard at Arne
Common Lizard close up!
Quad (Four-spotted Chaser)
Small Red Damselfly - in all its finery
Female Keeled Skimmer
A teneral male Emerald Damselfy
Male Emperor dragonfly
A teneral male Common Darter
Female Broad-bodied Chaser
Side view of the BBC
Dyrad's Saddle Polyporus squamosus - a bracket fungus with funky English and scientific names!
Back at the ranch, Liz found this Nuthatch preening on an open branch about 12m away
And so to bed for the wee Nutter
Challard Down running east from Corfe Castle and just north of the cottage
Pyramidal Orchid - typical of chalk downland
Male Common Blue
Pyramidal Orchid - the white form
Returning to the cottage we found a hornet in the living room on two different days.
Eyed Hawkmoth
Side view of the curvey Eyed HM.
Barred Yellow roosting under a birch branch near the trap.
The beautifully named Brussels Lace - a new moth for me - roosting on the trunk of a birch tree near the cottage
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