Days of Future Past - The Moody Blues

 Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues 

 (Full Album)

It's been a while!

1) The Day Begins - Reprise
2) Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling (5:50)
3) The Morning: Another Morning (9:00)
4) Lunch Break: Peak Hour (12:55)
5) The Afternoon: Tuesday Afternoon (19:05)
6) Evening: The Sunset (27:33)
7) The Night: Nights in White Satin (34:12)

At long last we find time to catch up on the notable, but neglected, Birds of the last 13 days of last month along with another bit of news that some may find interesting? It is interesting to myself that Andy Hopper has now submitted his sculpture

 INTERSTELLAR MAJOR

for inclusion in this year's

Summer Exhibition

at the 

Royal Academy of Arts London

 Andy describes himself as a Blacksmith, but get into conversation and some way into the mind of the man,
you quickly realise there is much more to the man than simply that.
Having been a member of the RA for a little over 20 years myself, and didn't miss a major exhibition over an 18 year period (1993 and 2011), all Art is of value to me.
In exactly the same way as Music, my belief is there is no such thing as 'rubbish'
as far as this or the Visual Image is concerned - more a case of
We Just Ain't Got It Yet!
(Although listening to some of the more resent offerings we do sometimes wonder,
but that's just what my Dad and his Dad, recurring, said!)

A couple of offerings from the Moth Traps with little excitement

COMMON QUAKER and HEBREW CHARACTER

As far as the Birds are concerned it goes back as far as Wednesday 15 February inst

when setting course for Portland in the hope of at least seeing a

PEREGRINE,

among other things, this quickly became a case of

The Mountain Coming to Mohamed,

rather than the other way about, as one flew overhead even before we

cleared the Recording Area.

Definitely taken as a 'good omen' we continued with the venture and by day's end we had added

 BLACK REDSTART

 to the Dorset List,

 the diminutive (size of a Goldcrest) and not very obliging

 HUME'S LEAF WARBLER

 to the Year List as was the case

 with a

GOSHAWK

on our way back to Slight Return II.

The following day again we sallied forth, but by no means as far,

just the 15 minutes to the village of Corfe Mullen to add

WAXWING

to the County Total.

Friday 17th a dark, dank and dismal day including scattered showers was
another off-piste, this time just over the Hampshire border no more than a 15 minute drive away.

Blashford Lakes

produced a

RING-BILLED GULL
 along with c2

YELLOW-LEGGED GULL
both of which were hardly viewable let alone photogenic
(but both additions for the year)

so these images have been taken from the archive.
A lot closer to the hide a pair of

GOLDENEYE
were strutting their stuff
Female and the Male displaying.

 Female

 Male displaying again.
From there it was a drive through the

New Forest

to the

Rhinefield Ornamental Drive

and the connecting
Blackwater Arboretum.
 

 
where we were to find

HAWFINCH

for the year

but only c2 at that!

Mighty Trees

The following day we headed back to the quaint village of

ABBOTSBURY

taking in the

TITHE BARN

SAINT CATHERINE'S CHAPEL

and the view across the bay which forms part of the World famous

ABBOTSBURY SWANNERY

and also managed to locate the c2

 RICHARD'S PIPIT

Later on that day just a single

COMMON SCOTER 

was seen flying past Portland Bill while c2

 SLAVONIAN GREBE

and an

EIDER

were noted close to Sandsfoot Castle on the northern shore of

Portland Harbour.

Starting our return journey, at

OAKERS WOOD

there was a brief encounter with Roger Hewitt, a birding friend of many years,

who had seen a

LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER

just a short time before my own encounter.

Plenty of

CATKINS

in bloom while

WOODLARK

also made it onto the Year List.

High on the top cross-member of an electricity pylon a female

Raven appeared to be incubating eggs, while in the thick of the wood

MARSH TIT

an addition to the County List and

SISKIN

among others were feeding.

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