There's Always Tomorrow - Burl Ives

APOLOGIES FOR THE 'NO-SHOW' YESTERDAY
TO SAY OUR ACCESS WAS SPORADIC WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT!
 The choice of Header Photograph at the beginning of each month
is a totally random affair, meaning the image that catches the eye
from our vast archive on the day. 
That is with the exception of July's Leader which was
generated by a huge stroke of Good Luck followed by a
'flash of inspiration'! The riddle will be divulged hopefully in a day or 2!
A good proportion of what action there was yesterday took place in and around 

the early morning monitoring of the Moth Traps and before even

reaching the first, a sound which is not at all a feature of the

Harbins Farmhouse Garden.
For only the second time during my tenure here

 NUTHATCH

 was first located on song, before being seen high in the large

Ash Tree.

 SMALL BLOOD-VEIN

and

DUN-BAR

 were both new Moths for the year while the 'also ran' was

confined to just a single

NOON FLY

The feature birds of the day appeared simultaneously and singing

as we attended to the final trap, with firstly a

WREN

and then a

COMMON WHITETHROAT

accompanied by a Blackbird and the Wren.
Then it was left to Plant Life to make up the bulk of the rest of the day with

COMMON MALLOW

and

BIRD'S-FOOT-TREFOIL

only being interrupted by a

 FUNNEL WEAVER SPIDER

before

PERFORATE SAINT JOHN's-WORT

 and

THICK-LEAVED STONECROP

were located.

The final visit of the day was paid to the Irrigation Pond where it was
discovered that both of the recently hatched

COOT

chicks we gone, and the parent birds nowhere near the nest which now looks to be abandoned.
Obviously not Third Time Lucky!

From 09:00 onward the day was a 'washout' with relatively
high winds and almost unbroken rain, but like the man said "there's always manana"!

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