A Good Day for Common Fare

but for Migrants - Forget It!

 Again it was a poor show from the 

MothTraps

with just c2 Insects but along with a Red Chestnut there was, for the second time this year,

something of a 'star'

 SCARCE PROMINENT

 is described in the literature as being

"Very Scarce (as the name already suggests) and Restricted Resident across Dorset"

so maybe we should be thanking heavens for having a colony on our patch!

It never ceases to amaze me how the presumed male

 CANADA GOOSE

 maintains this posture for most of the day stationed close to the nest 
where the female is incubating

and of the other waterbourne just a couple of male

 TUFTED DUCK

unless you want to be bored with more

Little Grebes and Coots!

 Additionally, the was a most obliging

GREEN SANDPIPER

 feeding in the margings before trying our luck at the

Sewerage Works Fence

with

GREY WAGTAILs

 seemingly showing off and a small host of other small birds including

 GREAT TIT

 COAL TIT

 and

 BULLFINCH

 ALL,

not surprisingly, in good voice!

 Along the strip of mature Oaks bordering the horse paddocks

 NUTHATCH

are still hard at it while strangely we have not seen

hide nor hair of a Treecreeper so far this Spring

while a few

BLUEBELLs

are also starting to push through

Linnets are now mob-handed across the Heath with Woodlark also seen daily

but still no signs of that Osprey, Red Kite or for that matter

Hobby across that 'BIG' Sky, so for now we will have to content ourselves with

 DARTFORD WARBLER

BLOOMING BLACKTHORN

 and the odd 'flying' aircraft

Bombardier Global

owned by Gama Aviation UK