Lapwing

A wet, grey day but it is always good to see lapwings. Sadly, like most farmland birds they aren't as common as they used to be - although we still see quite a few of them in my part of the country.  People have given the bird several different names over the centuries: green plover, pyewipe and peewit. Their call inspired the name 'peewit'. Their wings are broader at the ends than near their body, which gives the birds a distinctive flight pattern. 

Not ideal conditions for photographing birds in flight, but I did what I could with this. 

When they opened the moth trap at Martin Mere this morning, I was delighted to see my first elephant hawk-moth, but it wasn't for hanging around so I didn't try to get a photo. I was told it was unusal to see them so late in the year. 

The pink footed geese are beginning to come in from Iceland.