Nobody's Fault but Mine - Led Zeppelin

BLUE-NAPED CHLOROPHONIA

 (Colombia 2010)

With the Readership dwindling even further (nobody’s fault but mine) we came up with the idea of a ‘Bird of the Week’ image each Sunday to get things going with this being the first even though it’s only Thursday. Despite not having a pessimistic bone in our body reality spells the end of the Blog before the end of the year - we will wait to see!

You can only lead your horse to the Water!

After yet another and short lacklustre rounds on our home turf we had to try other measures to fill today;s post so toddled off to Longham Lakes again in hopes! There we found little difference by way of species but numbers in some cases had increased since our last visit with one new addition. We hadn't got through the gate before the first

GREAT WHITE EGRET
flew overhead

and later found there was an additional single

taking the day count to 5.
At the same spot c3

EGYPTIAN GEESE

were the new additions to the

species count of the

previous visit while the

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

count appeared to be the same.
Interesting to note some of the plumage differences among the

BLACK-HEADED GULLs

with almost full black-caps of the adults

and far less so with the juvenile which we attempted to video

before the 'camera hog' backed in.
Continuing with the Gulls there had been a marked increase in

COMMON GULL

numbers

while those of the humble

HERRING GULL
remained static as we could only find this single juvenile on the day.

The largest increase of all fell to the

COOT

with numbers having increased 10 fold but no change in the numerous

TUFTED DUCK

LITTLE EGRET
while as far as we could tell the

STONECHAT
remains as a singleton.
Finally, we add this clip of another

GREAT WHITE EGRET
but as much for the short vocal outburst of a
Cetti's Warbler.

and still awaiting the first Moth of Late Winter!