If I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul and Mary

Another reasonably fine day with a rainless

(for us)

 FRONT

chugging up the

English Channel

 while the only New Moth was a

 RUSTIC SHOULDER-KNOT

Little (nothing) to capture our attention at any of the Ponds

we headed directly for the Heath, where again it was quiet but nt without its moments!

 Our favourite of the Rare Breeds Cattle 

the brown and white 

SHETLAND

was waiting for me at the gate as a

 COMMON CARDER BEE

 was as busy as one.

We make no appology for more

 WOODLARK

 images as they will all to soon be gone,

 so once they grace the viewfinder its

Click, Click, Click

 An inordinate number of

 BROWN-LIPPED SNAILs

today showing themselves for the first time this year

 while close by there was only the second Reptile for 2020 another

SLOW WORM

Even the

 EWES

are now in Summer Plumage as this years Lambs will not be cropped until next spring,

but then at the Airport Fence

 the easily recognisable song of a

 LESSER WHITETHROAT

 but in what was considered a strage place.

 A contribution from Jim the Medic in Beveley, Yorks but don't know where he got this one from.

Bournemouth International Airport

a little more crowded that Weymoth Bay.

That's when we thought we heard a second Lesser Throat, but adjusting the

Sensory Organs change our mind in favour of

 YELLOWHAMMER

 A most welcome species here these days  as gone are the times

when they bred in what might be considered 'flock' proportions.

Since our residence began in 2013 this is only the 3rd record putting this

smart little songster squarely in catagory of

RARE!

It also brought up the 100th species for 2020 across our Recording Area!