Once Moors Into the Breach Dear Friends - Bill the Bard

The eastern boundary of the northern section of MY Recording Area is guarded by a mature tree-line, including Oak, Ash, Silver Birch, Rowan et al along with barbed wire fencing and dense bushes. These include among others Hawthorn, Holly, Elder, Honeysuckle and Blackthorn, which hold all the attributed of such things but become a darn nuisance when trying to focus the Canon beyond them. In turn this area then opens up to water meadows, through which the 

Moors River

meanders and where, on occasion, the odd decent bird turns up but never anything rare. That is unlike a previous resident which was not only uncommon but downright rare being one of only 2 sites in Great Britain where the

Orange-spotted Emerald

once existed before becoming extinct throughout the land. This was attributed to a pollution leak upstream but with some authorities believing that it was the change in vegetation that finally did for them. It has been my great privilege to have seen these beautiful Insects during a good number of trips to Estonia a country that despite the beautiful and effervescent Ille (pronounced Ella), is a county not to be missed - get it on the Bucket List! 

 An extract from Brooks

Among the breeding birds here

Mute Swan

 Cygnets

and Mallard still have a toe-hold, but neither 

Egyptian Geese 

nor 

Mandarin 

 male

 seem to nest as they did in my earlier years here. 

There is also a decent size herd of Charolais here but thus far not a sign of Cattle Egret,

and even on this very day there was some action along the riverbank
despite having to dodge the branches and twigs!

CORMORANTS

4 in total

but only these 2 falling to the Canon before we came across

REYNARD

The colloquial name Reynard stems from a literary cycle of medieval allegorical fables. 

The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century.

Wonderful tool that there Wikipedia init?

Same Time, Same Place Manana!