Young At Heart - Francis A Sinatra

Given to last, again the overnight temperature stuck doggedly in 
double figures bringing with it even more
First for the Year Moths

BRIGHT-LINE BROWN-EYE

 SHARK

 DARK ARCHES

 SERAPHIM
along with one of the more bizzare

 denizens of the night

BLACK-SPOTTED PLIERS SUPPORT BEETLE
Sticking close to home in the first instance spotting
Harry Carpenter - Boxing Commetator 
on the lawn we presumed that there was about to be a fight

 and a colourful one at that.

Gentle sparring would be a better description

 but all in the name of

winning the 'claw' of a

Lovely Lady
The first of the juvenile

ROOKs
was also chancing its arm lingering only long enough for this shot,
but the feeling is it or they may well be back!

We have also been keeping a careful eye on the 
HONEYSUCKLE
at the gateway to the Heath and found it blooming now with the hopes that a
Hummingbird Hawk-moth
might happen along.
QUIET
isn't quite the word we would choose in an open forum to describe
the activity within, but this being a family publication we'll leave it at that!

All on offer was the first of the juvenile

 MEADOW PIPITs

 to break cover, a first flush of

 ELDER FLOWER

 along with a none too obliging

 Family Party
of

 GREAT TITs

 still being fed by the parent birds.
Otherwise, and Finally more Invertibrates overlooked from the previous day

 COMMON POLLEN BEETLES
and 

PILL WOODLOUSE and WHITE-LEGGED MILIPEDE
feeding on what is thought to be a
COMMON NEWT
given where they were found.