The Bluest Blue - Alvin Lee

The carpet could never be pulled completely from under the

Black Man's Blues 

but there are certainly a bunch of White Lads and other persuassions who got extremely close!

Like your 'favourite film' or your 'favourite bird' it is an impossibility

to decide on a firm 'White Blues' but this is as close as it gets for me!

Go on Alvin - Ex Vocalist and Axeman with Ten Years After!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6OlJqV1rQ

 Warning, have a Kleenx handy, knowing what was coming I had the 

Ballast Pump already Flashed Up! Especially the 2 Guitar Breaks!!

 The BLUE refers to the

 unbroken azure of the

 final day of Summer

 and while there was precious little to shout about from the

Moth Traps

we do have a few "Pretties For You - Alice Cooper.

LIGHT EMERALD

 both

LESSER (left) and SWALLOW PROMINENT 

along with the diminutive

 BRIMSTONE MOTH

 and after just 20 seconds of uttering those immortal words

"we don't get to see any baby Wood Pigeons (squabs)"

 one pokes its head out of the nest in the 

Holm Oak Tree right nextdoor to Slight Return II.

 Good News

on the first sighting from the

Irrigation Pond

with what look like c2 new arrival

 LITTLE GREBEs

where there has been an absence for a number of weeks now!

Additionally the

MUTE SWAN

remains in residence.

Half way around the Solar Panel Compound fence we found this 'strange sight' of

juvenile

 PIED WAGTAILs

 cosying up close and seemingly comfortable with a

 KESTREL

there was also the odd similarly aged

GREENFINCH 

 as well,

 so was it just the Innocence of youth or just darn right Bravado?

Additionally, there was something of a 'mixed bag'

 Across the Heath

with more Insects, Fungi and Other but in no particular order.

Still one or two

 GATE KEEPER BUTTERFLIES

on the wing,

 and always a boon when falling in with a

 LEOPARD SLUG

 EARTHBALL

along with a 'first for the year' 

 GRASS SNAKE

and a few paces away a

 COMMON LIZARD

 FLY AGARIC

 about the only Fungi self identified, and 'maybe'

 EARTHBALL

falls into that catagory as well?

A not before discovered

BADGER SETT

a Mammal that we are now seeing each and every evening.

Add to that a

SMALL COPPER

along with yet another

 WHEATEAR,

 we are doing well this year,

 we drifted back home

 well satisfied.

Somewhere in My Heart - Aztec Camera

Summer in the city where the air is 'chill' (sic)
A baby being born to the overkill
Who cares what people say
We walk down love's motorway

Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves
And singing hearts and flowers

One word of the lyric altered to sum up the overnight temperature which was just a degree or 2 short of single figures. The day followed in a subdued fashion while at the Moth Traps catches remained rather low with the ‘prettiest' of the few shown below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w1Q8ZkXZ1Q

 BORDERED BEAUTY

 ORANGE SWIFT

 BLOOD-VEIN

 WHITE-POINT

an Autumnal and Grand looking bunch and if you believe in

Lightning Striking  the Same Place Twice join a new convert.

As with the 26th August post and the unidentifiable

Autumnal / November Moth,

miles away yet from their given flight period as the name suggests, we have caught another!

We use the word 'another' with some confidence as the first was released in the garden while this

was caught some 2 miles away - something strang is happening!

Somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be is true

One of, if not ‘the’, finest pop/new wave song ever penned it was a credit,

once again to the Jocks, to bring us such a sound!

 Otherwise we were rather scratching around on the penultimate day of 

Summer

and one which, on reflection, we did rather well despite the occassional gripe!

 COAL TIT

in the garden again before sallying forth and just to plump things out a bit

we will add acouple of videos from the archive to keep up the interest - hopefully!

 AVOCET

about as likely to be seen here as me getting the drinks in.

 A prospective first, if it sticks around,

for the new season

CORMORANT

on the Gravel Pit and good numbers of foraging

 LONG-TAILED TIT

with the odd

 GOLDCREST

among them.

Even less likely here and again from the archive

CRESTED TIT

Rothimurchus Forest, Scotland

during a short break up there with Dave Foot.

The only bird I managed to see before he did!

and finally, one that was here

GREATER SCAUP

Gravel Pit - May 2018

After something of a shortish day it was

back to base for a brioche and smoked salmon sandwich 

and a steaming mug of Douwe Egbert's finest.