The Kids Are Alright - The Who

Not a Hope in Hell of saving the Best until last today

as there could have been little better than a visitation from my c3 younger

 APPRENTICES

Josh, Sophie and Oliver
(the latter back to Wellington boots rather than Football)

 who had additionally come to view 

Grandma Jen's new

 ARAB HORSE

In addition to having a keen interest in Wildlife Josh is a member of the 

Bournemouth Town Football Acadamy, Oliver the same at Southampton and little

Sophie, just 5, already an accomplished all round dancer.

She was told of my days of being a 'tap-dance' but had to give it up as kept falling into the sink!

My single hope now is that we get all of this isolation out of the way and get up the 

Common together real soon!

 Otherwise, things keep popping up from time to time and we continue

trying to capture them for your pleasure!

 Once again there were no new Moths to add to the Year List while this rather 

handsome lady

PHEASANT

crossing the lawn kicked the day off very well!

If indeed it is bad news we might as well get it behind us and report that the

 LITTLE GREBE

nest still shows signs of being abandoned - but you never can tell!

While what has become the norm in recent weeks

 MISTLE THRUSH

 still look to be doing very well

while the first of c2

 juvenile

 MEADOW PIPIT

was certainly obliging and the

FIDDLER

was on the Roof!

 The spotting of any

 DARTFORD WARBLER

let alone a full blown adult male is enough to bring the Canon to bear,

 and while we already had suspicions today we located the

COMMON BUZZARDS NEST

Any other activities, and there were a number, were confined to the 

other side of the Airport perimter fence where first to appear were the

HERP'sPEOPLE

 who seem to check the

 Reptile Covers

on a regular basis.

Today it looked like they were clearing them out so that

GRASS MOWING

could take place??

and what followed looked every bit like a

Machine for Sowing Seed another????

but whatever the airport spend a lot of money on this border of grassland!

There is a Light Aircraft repair station at the 'hook' end of this

Lofty Crane

so did linger in hope of catching some action - but no and moving on found both

Red

 and

 Yellow

Fire Engines underway but not stopping at the 

Fire Practice Yard - so no flames today.

Looks like

RYANAIR

are now right in the swing of things with, we guess, about half a dozen flights per day?

 Another, rather more ragged juvenile hove into view

with no intent of staring in a

 Feature Length Film

 TUGGING an AIRBUS

ROWAN in the BREEZE

 and looks like there shoud be some

 HAPPY CATTLE

 when this lot start falling!

While to put an end to things Paul Harris sends images of a 'scarce'

 ORACHE MOTH,

which we have caught here just the once, while his next find

 was on a traffic roundabout just outside of

Weymouth

where it has stayed since, a scarce

WOOD SANDPIPER