Cuckoo Cocoon - Genesis

 Another day, another Moth Trap from whence came fresh to the year

PEACOCK MOTH

along with a

SCALLOPED HOOK-TIP
bringing the annual total to a nice round 50 plus a wayward

SPIDER
while at Pondside incubation seems to have taken off in ernest at long last with the sitting

MUTE SWAN

giving us just a fleeting glimps of the precious cargo below.

Looks like c7 again exactly the same as last year when they all lived to tell the tale.
From down south there was little to report save for c7

ROE DEER

which were only allowing c2 at a time followed by a

CHEVAL BLANC
looking as good as that Fine Claret of France tastes.
While the parent Mutes presented something of a thrill watching what has been considered a 'lone'

LITTLE GREBE
was seen to be carrying either nesting material or more likely food, either way stimulating a longer search across the site and finding, directly underfoot, this

NEST

Parent Bird??

containing c2 eggs as far as we could see, with hopefully more observations to follow.

Inside the Solar Panel Compound little more than this loan male
CHAFFINCH
along with this

LAMB
which looked as if it were dead, sounding the horn, just to be sure, and luckily not.
As if overnight one of the 2 Apple Trees close to the Heath had sprung into bloom

bringing to mind the poem of Welshman W. H. Davis - 'Leisure' c1911.
What is this life so full of care,
we have not time to stand and stare?
as this area dueing WWII was an R.A.F. base and often wonder if it were these military men and women who might have planted these trees?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
and stare as long as Sheep and Cows!

 but no time for standing and staring too long as from the other side of the Moors River came the unmistakeable strains of our first

 our first of the year

and most welcome

CUCKOO

blink and it will be a case of
"In July away I fly, in August away I must"