Sunday 6 July 2014

Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd

While my day started off as usual tending the Moth Traps, it might be a nice change for some to start on a different topic? Over the past few days there has been a build up here of less usual air traffic and it's not even Bournemouth International Airport Air Show Day yet.
 Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladen, empty and turned to stone
A soul intention -- that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
 A EURO-FIGHTER TYPHOON
 has landed and taken off on at least a dozen occasions while the
 RED ARROWS
Aerobatic Display Team
Have shown a presence on 3 of the last 5 days.
 Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

 This old DAKOTA
 shown previously
is still being seen on a regular basis
 while this aircraft,
 looking every bit like a Russian,
 has been seen but once and still we don't know what it is.
I feel sure someone will tell us won't they Roy?
COASTGUARD AIR-SEA RESCUE HELICOPTER
 another blast from the past a Royal Navy
 SEA VIXEN
It is infrequent, to say the least, to see a
JUMBO JET
take off or land at Bournemouth and I managed to miss both.
All that was captured was the tail-plane as it taxied to the stand.
So, at long last I hear you say, here are a few items from today's catch.
DWARF CREAM WAVE
SMALL BLOOD-VEIN
V-PUG
FAN-FOOT
SYCAMORE
DOUBLE LOBED
SMOKY WAINSCOT
DARK SWORD-GRASS
Mating
CRANEFLIES
DEAD HEAD HOVERFLY
Myathropa florea
Lots of early morning young
Swallows
The ever watchful and opportunist
CARRION CROW
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