Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

The new header photograph depicts one of

two birds that almost killed me, but we will have to

bring that story to you at a later date!

It's still too gloomy at 06:00 these days to get stuck into the Moth Traps but the atmosphere was clear, as was the sky with all heavenly bodies visible, but then down came the fog. The traps were then abandoned for a further 30 minute until the sun cut the horizon and did its stuff.

There were a few things of interest within, and it should be reported

that this Post also expands on some of the items featured yesterday.

A First for the Year (FFY) made for a good start with

HEDGE RUSTIC
followed by the eye-catching

CLAY TRIPLE-LINES

the delightful

VAPOURER
another FFY

LUNAR UNDERWING
and

COMMON WAINSCOT

At the Irrigation Pond
and as yesterday's Post indicated it looked every bit as though the

COOT
 were going to rejuvenate the old nest and have another crack at raising young.
Fair enough we thought, but by this morning the nest had grown to giant proportions.

 COMMON SANDPIPER

 is still at the Gravel Pit but has never ventured this close

 and so we took the opportunity

 to rattle off a few shots

in as many 

 varying postures as possible.

There was also ample chance to

capture a couple of

'video clips' as well.
Also there and detected briefly a few days ago, a

 juvenile
MOORHEN
 

obliged us at close quarters but also surprised in as much as no
adult birds have been seen in the northern half of the property for
over 2 months now.

juvenile
MALLARD

feeding.
On the Heath there are still a few each of

 SLOW WORM
and

 SMOOTH SNAKE
 but a

BLACK SLUG
was a lucky find, lucky that it wasn't stepped on,
while a 'free flying'
 
TREBLE-BAR,

yet another FFY, was considered even luckier!

AT ECO

 all there was of note, and just for once, was the singe resident

 HERRING GULL
willing to be photographed.

This Bird scratches out a very good living from the discarded

bits from the work force.

TRAIL CAMERA UPDATE

and for the second time we are able to feature a
NIGHTJAR

with a blurred landing and an all too short clip of video,
followed by a nifty little sequence from a couple of

WOOD PIGEON

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