extracted from the bedroom. the subject of recent scaremongering in the press ('britain's most deadly spider')  it's a male false widow, steatoda nobilis, which first arrived in devon and is spreading up the country.

half dozen ouzels on south side of cow gap this evening. 2 firecrests at gildredge park.

a week of easterlies in late september and still practically nothing about, but....

the rare travels alone