On the Road Again - Canned Heat (Part 2)

 Happy with our lot, given the conditions, we headed further east and took the sharp left into

STONY CROSS

OCKNELL

and straight into the arms of

some of the locals

NEW FOREST PONIES

which qualify as Wild Mammals in thier own right.

The long and winding road that leads to the

ROYAL OAK

and the expected attendant
Inky Pinky Ponkies
before arrival at

There we met a 'couple' who had seen nothing more than Mallards, a few small birds but as regulars there were surprised to have seen their first ever

GADWALL
there which was also the case in my own instance - unless forgotten?
They had only just got around the bend and out of sight at the exit to the pond when out of the margins swam c7

MANDARIN DUCKs
that were never cooperative enough to be captured on a single still, and think it may be best to interspurse the Building (all considered well in excess of the £1,000,000 mark) with the Birds.

THE GREEN DRAGON
Public House
What we lost on the group shot we surely made up for in

close-up (male foreground)

all taken on the day, but most surprisingly only a single

MARSH TIT

Private Dwelling

males

certainly leaving the females

Out of the Picture

with only c2

COAL TIT

The Final Dwelling
and a single

NUTHATCH