Lime Street Station Hawk Moth (4.6.2007)

A funny thing happened on the way to the station... we were almost back to Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool when I noticed an apparently inebriated elderly gentleman (EG) stoop to pick something from the pavement. Whatever it was had obviously been trodden on a time or two and was in rather a sorry state. A heated discussion then took place between him and a young woman (YW) as to whether it was a butterfly or a moth. The conversation went as follows:

YW: It's a butterfly
EG: It's a moth
YW: No it's a butterfly that
Me : It's a Lime Hawk Moth
YW: It's a butterfly
Me: (a bit louder) It's a Lime Hawk Moth
YW: It's a butterfly
EG: I think it's a moth

At this point I left not really wanting to be involved in an altercation about a moth. Things could have turned nasty.

Still as Harry Hill would say "A Lime Hawk Moth outside Lime Street Station....what are the chances of that happening?"

On the train on the way home we saw a Buzzard just outside Moss side station.