That's Why They Call Me Mushroom - 'Cus I'm Some Sort of Fun Guy!

 You didn't have to be

or Trevor the Weather to see what was afoot for Monday night and part of Tuesday, so a cunning plan was hatched.

The Glass-less Green House no tomatoes this year!

Part of the Caravan is Missing

Oh, there it is down the lane.
Our images from a wander across the Heath on Sunday were held over for such an event and presented for your delectation today!

Not at all a good start as we found the

GOAT ENCLOSURE
devoid of animals and even though they may have been in the depths of the Ferns and Erica it is more likely they have been taken to thier Winter Quarters as is the norm at this time of year? A decent start was

SHAGGY INKCAP

while always a delight to view and

listen to swaying to the breeze
ASPENS

Crossing Dean's Ditch via the railway sleeper bridge looking first to starboard

and then to port before reaching the

Open Heath
"Out on the wily, windy moors we roll an fall in green. You had a temper like my jealousy to hot to greedy" - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush.

A rather unexpected female

BLACKCAP
was follwed by a clump of

SCARLET ELF CUP

Across the South-side still the

EUROPEAN CARGO AIRCRAFT
stand idle with another 2 on the main pan not seen in the air for months!

along with c2 quite seperate

STONECHAT

Across our 16 Reptile Covers unsurprisingly there was no more than a single

SMOOTH SNAKE
which might have gone down quite nicely with a blob of

WITCHE'S BUTTER FUNGI

More Open Heath across which no more than this single

DARTFORD WARBLER
was located along with a further species of Fungi

BROWN ROLL RIM
Overall a little disapointing in as much as our hopes were more than high for finding a

WRYNECK

which have showed up 2 years running around about this date!
YOU NEVER GET 'EM ALL!!

His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley

Or Maybe That Should Read - Raining in My Heart -Buddy Holly?

Again the rain came down over night while the temperature moved in the opposite direction, to a balmy +17°C so not all bad news with hopes high at the Moth Traps! Strangely, as it has been 2 years since the dawn chorus was provided, in the first instance by a

WATER RAIL 

image from the archive, and not recorded on the River Stour, just a stone's throw away, for 6 months or more.

 From the Moth Traps totals of 27 spicies x 88 individual Insects with

DECEMBER MOTH
added to the Year List

with the also rans amounting to

SMALL MOTTLED WILLOW

along with a rather late

FLAME
Also within the Solar Panel Compoud it looked as if the unseen

BADGERs,
having taken over the late Bronze Age Tumuli as a Sett long ago

had been creating othe Earth Works, as feeding stations right across the fenced in area.

Gelder Rose
looking Autumnal while at the Posh End of town all the

MOLE HILLS
are pebble-dashed.

With

ACORNS
in abundance this year, where last year ther was not a single one come the

JAY's
already in good numbers and
undetaking our rounds down south always paying some attention to the

LITTLE OWL
nest site in the Ash stump, just in case, and while the pet

EMU
was strutting its stuff Rod Hull was trying to fix our TV aerial!

Tea for Two - Doris Day

 Making an analogy as to the anticipation of getting to the Moth Traps each morning, as early and as fast as possible, is akin to a child on Christmas Eve, while waiting for the
foul-weather to abate shows that the Fat Lad in the Red Coat and White Beard 

really did get stuck up the chimney!

Nothing new but a cross-section of the also rans produced

MALLOW
a tardy

COMMON WAINSCOT
a rather active

DOR BEETLE
along with an

ANGLE SHADES
while this moribund

EARTHWORM
was thought to have been forced to surface by the recent deluge.

A brace of transiting
GREYLAG GEESE

before heading north where, just inside the Solar Panel Compound, it looked as if the 

FAIRIES
had been hard at work over-night while a couple of

STONECHAT

were a most welcome sight after an absence of 2 or 3 weeks?
Just a peek over the gateway to the Heath

proved profitable with the first showing this year of

FLY AGARIC FUNGI
enchanting but highly toxic!

Between bouts with the neighbours Cross Breed Beef Cattle

what remains of the

CROSS BREED BEEF CATTLE
what remains of the

LINNET FLOCK
with a lone

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
before tuning our attentions to a
Damsel in Distress.

One of the Caravan Ladies had found this little

Chap or Chapess
on her bunk

and showed her gratitude 'in kind'
After the Ordeal (Genesis) - Selling England by the Pound.
(A nice cup of tea that is)

North Sea Migration - Part I

 For this and a number of following Sunday's we intend to content ourselves with a series of Posts relating to the extrodinay and maybe unbelievable Wildlife associated with the North Sea and it ain't all Sharks and Whales! All images are associated with the

FLOATING SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE OIL PRODUCTION PLATFORM
'BUCHAN ALPHA'

stationed 100 miles north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland in a Sea-Area known as

The South Halibut Basin. 

The selection of images is random.

Night Migration's must have involved Million of Birds and other creatures!

Myself with a Big Boy juvenile
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

WHEATEAR

LAPLAND BUNTING

COLLARED DOVE

TURNSTONE

BARNACLE GOOSE

REDSTART
among the millions many, many fatalities with all casualties sent to the North Sea Bird Club at Culterty some miles north of Aberdeen. The practice was suspended when the the Bird Flu set in!

LONG-EARED OWL

GREENFINCH

ROCK PIPIT

ROCK DOVEs

a bit of a 'stay-at-home' species, which at the time never having been recorded this far from land.

SISKIN
More, and maybe even 'better' next week!

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