What an excellent season (not that it's all over yet).  The migrant activity has been impressive to say the least and everyone seems to have caught something special.  Trouble is, you only really appreciate some of these 'once in a lifetime' records in retrospect, rarely when they happen.  At the coastal stations (like Portland) the catches read like wish lists of rarities: illustrating that all these species are fully possible.  In years to come we'll be saying: "remember 2006, now that was a good year".

Again, even though the season isn't quite over, I did mull through my own half-dozen mothy aims for the rest of this year and next year - they are (in no particular order):

• Get out into the field more often
• Improve my macro-photography
• Try to get to grips with gen. det.
• Remember more micro names
• Get back my youthful dexterity with a net
• Try to find the tortrices more interesting

I got a new generator early on this year and apart from running it up once, it has yet to see active service - how bad is that.  [Shame: I have also 'borrowed' the petrol to top up the mower.]   But perhaps my most nagging want is to take some stunningly good photos.  Really not sure what to do about that.  I do appreciate this is a mix of technique, equipment and luck and I'm probably lacking one or all of these most of the time.  Will work on that.