Young at Heart - The Bluebells

With no NEW Moths it was left to something much larger to represent the

Winged Division!

 BRITISH AIRWAYS JUMBO JET

Rumours have been rife for a few days now that the fleet of similar

BA owned aircraft are going to be leaving 

Bournemouth International Airport

in the near future with this being the first we have witnessed

 while these remain the images across the pan.

while 'cargo' keeps rolling along!

While we haven't as much as seen an

 EGYPTIAN GOOSE

in the last 4 to 6 weeks today we maybe found the reason why

 as transiting the 

Moors River

 out from cover

 stomped this little lot, refreshing to know they are still doing it on our patch!

While something even bigger and taller manifested itself, it was only as a

result of clicking a wrong file in our search for other things that the enigmatic

 GREAT BLUE HERON

 got to be shown here anyway. 

Seemed a shame just to close the file on what on this giant from the America's, which

if my memory serves me correctly, or one has not sneaked in via the back door,

has only visited our shores just a single time.

Having seen plenty 'across the pond' doesn't preclude wanting to seen on in the UK.

Not a lot else to be seen as this

 WHITETROAT

put in an all to brief and very fidgety

 appearance.

As if we had not had our fill of

'The Young Ones'

it was on the Heath that it was the turn of a juvenile

 DARTFORD WARBLR

 watched over by vocal parent birds

 as practising the craft of catching

Common Heath Moths

which are now abundant there.

GRASS SNAKE

was a welcome find but

a little to camera-shy when it came to videoing.

A juvenile

STONECHAT

once again proved to be irresistable

Finally, within the Solar Panel Compoud we once again encountered the

 now seemingly singular which we had intended to highlight about 10 days ago

when encountered on the Heath.

There were concerns even then that the presumed femal bird had been

predated or fallen to Old Father Time

but now about a mile from that original spot he again remains alone.

The concern arises as since being first found in 2017 they have 'never' 

been seen alone

so these are strange happenings but we remain hopeful!