The Blues and the Buffs

Another frustratingly late start to yesterday due to continuing

high winds and heavy rain showers, but on reflection had we commenced at any

other time the cupboard may have remained bare?

Confining ourselves to the northern areas of the Recording Area, while

abandoning the Heath altogether, the stop at the Irrigation Pond found not only had

 COOT

numbers increased but some serious

 contesting balance of power

 which did seem particularly

 early in the year?

Next door at the Gravel Pit it immediately looked to be "same old" until a

KINGFISHER

(first of the blues and buffs)

flew in a most sparodic species in these more northern climes.

Next port of call wwere the eastern horse paddocks where all the feeding birds,

mostly Black-headed Gulls, Redwing and Pied Wagtail had gone but leaving a lone

 NUTHATCH

(the second)

 feeding among the mighty Oaks.

Returning along the main bridleway the bird that flew ahead had all the attributes of a male

MERLIN

 only confirmed on second and third very good flight views.

Never anywhere near the Canon the line drawing

adequately emphasises the point.

Here are a few images of a female Merlin at work on a Redwing

aboard the woman I once loved before she headed to the Breakers Yard at

 Dales Voe, Lerwick the Main Town and Port of

The Shetland Islands, Scotland

 Millions upon Millions

 of Birds must have overflown or landed on that

Fine Old Lady

some considered rare or uncommon but certainly worth a Post on its own

hopefully sometime soon?

 Considered a most entertaining 'hat-trick' we now turn our attention back to the post of 18/02/20

The Young Ones
where we introduced our 3 younger appretices and waxed lyrical about
the talents of apprentice and seamstress Chloe.
On one of those images of the new upholstery there is a shot of a Scallop Shell
which 3 of our readers have shown interest in and all considering it looks rather large.

With time constraints visiting us we will have to abandon the plan to explain the significance of the 

Shell but will do our best to address that tomorrow!