MADAGASCAR - Part IV

WITH JUST 77 HITS YESTERDAY AND 88 THE DAY BEFORE WE FEEL WE CAN HERE THE DEATH KNELL - WE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE IT IN YOUR HANDS!

HOTEL RIKSHAWS

WHITE-THROATED RAIL

BLUE COUA

WHITE-FOOTED SPORTIVE LEMUR

APPET'S GREENBUL

SCALY GROUND ROLLER

TOWN CENTRE TAXI'S

MILNE-EDWARD'S SIFAKA

SPECTALED GREENBUL

BROWN LEMUR

PLANTING RICE PADDIES

SUB-DESERT BRUSH WARBLER

BLACK EGRET

SIFAKA

BLUE VANGA

Another Bus Ride

BROWN LEMUR

and finally, the most deadly and most difficult to locate 

of them all, the cat-like

FOSSA
talk about lucky, we saw 3 of them on this trip!

White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day

Another

Cold and Frosty Morning

that didn't even last to 10:30 before becoming

SPRING-LIKE

with all watercourses
CANADA GEESE

MALLARD
ice free and unable to resist any of the local

KESTRELs
in such pose down south where the next arrival was certainly straight from the

Tales of the Unexpected

and certainly

SPITFIRE
like even with the 'clipped' wing and while we had previously reported that the

CRAB-APPLES

were now over we found that we had somewhat been mistaken with

FIELDFARE

and female
BLACKBIRDs
alike still finding sustenance and our wander ending with the now very familiar

ROYAL NAVY MERLIN
and along the verges the first signs of budding

DAFFODILS
with the final remarkable image coming from elsewhere that we have forgotten an

albino
LONG-EARED OWL
with 'archetype'.

It's a Beautiful Day are/were an American band formed in San Fracisco, California, in 1967 featuring vocalist Patti Santos and violinist Dave La Flame.

ALBINO LAPWING
by kind permission of Bomber!

SORROW - Pink Floyd

 

Only a single digit in it but that of the + variety at 1°C keeping Jack Frost a little at bay, while the Dawn Chorus was provided by a single

SONG THRUSH

out-singing 3 or 4 

ROBINs
by a Royal Mile.

At daylight we headed north but within seconds 'disaster'

but fortunately not for myself

but likey showing there is still ICE about along the Airport fence line.
As far as the watercourses were concerned still just a trace of thin ice on the

IRRIGATION POND
while within the Solar Panel Compound again no Moths or other Insects within the trap but unlike the previous day, when there were none, at least a few Birds

starting with

an unexpected

small flock of

FIELDFARE
with just a hint of the oncoming Buds of Spring.

 with a couple of grazing

ROE DEER

and ending with another
PINK FLOYD MOMENT

Sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land Plumes of smoke rise,

merge into the leaden sky. Man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,

but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking.

Nessun Dorma - L. P.

 Being something of a NEWS hog, especially Channel 4, it is felt giving up drinking Wine would be preferable to swiching off the Idiot's Lantern. Not quiet sure what the context was, as was drinking wine at the time, there was an item refering to the concert of the 30th of July 1991 known as

 PAVAROTTI in the PARK

which neatly fell on the day before, along with a crew mate from Derby, we were to return to our duties aboard the Semi-submesible Drilling Rig Stena Hunter in the North sea.

A 'million' memories across a day when the rain never stopped and thousands of like minded adoring fans sharing our picnics during a 4 hours wait for the gig to begin. With just one of those hours having passed it was said that Luciano looked out of his hotel window across Hyde Park to see the now slightly damp throng of fans chearing and waving and decided to perform an impromptu which lasted over an hour - FANTASTIC.

The Main Performace was perfection itself becoming one of the most memorable moments in my (our) lives! but we digress so on to the

FROZEN MOTH TRAP
which produced what will likely be one of the graetes surprises of the year a single

BUFF-TAILED BUMBLEBEE

along with what is hoped to be some sluggish footage?
Otherwise, not quite the best of days but there is aways something even if repeats! An opportunist shot of c2

high-flying

EGYPTIAN GEESE
which we hope to find landed sometime later, and apart from this

PIATUS-PC-FLIGHT-RADAR
everything else appeared to be doing balancing acts starting with a couple of

HERRING GULLs
just a single

FIELDFARE
well away from what remains of the Crabapple food source

and with 'dozens' of

ROOKs
having taken to the high-wire an estimated 60?

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