And Then There Were Three - Genesis

The title of their 'ninethe studio album' was coined as a result of lead guitarist

Steve Hackett

leaving the band, to concentrate on other things, as had

vocalist Peter Gabriel a number of years before,

effectively turning the original 

Quintet into a Trio!

After a strong cup of coffee and all the other early morning rituals we usually

sally forth at about 06:00 on these summer mornings, which on the last 5 has 

coincided wth a 

GREY HERON

flying in from the north and alighting somewhere along the course of the

River Stour.

we'll get it perched before too long???? 

There has also been an upturn in the numbers of Macro 

(usually, but not always the larger Insects) Moths of late with the mornings collective

reaching a total of 192 specimens.

 Of these but one was added to the 2020 list, which is not a grumble

as good to see

 FIGURE of EIGHT

back in the traps.

Additionally, there was another Arachnid secure by dew to the windscreen

which John Gifford suggests is one of the

GRASS SPIDER
(species)
With little, or rather nothing, to keep us in the more southern climes we headed north

with thoughts as to if the c3

GREEN SANDPIPERs

might still be there, but no they seem to have departed but having left

more than adequate replacements.

We haven't knowingly seen more than a single

 LITTLE GREBE

at the Gravel Pit for a number of weeks now but that is not to say

that we observe the same 'singleton' each time!

 That riddle was adequately resolved as from the smart plumage 

of this adult popped the tiny head

 of what looked like a very young juvenile indeed?

 The other adult did appear and passed food with the opperation

being so quick we were unable to capture it.

Like all of its kind the tiny

HUMBUG

was totally confident in the water

only returning to Mum and Dad when the groceries arrived.

Before the next prile there was a visit from

Sod, who most of us know because of his Law, and we, like everyone else

get our share of that.

No doubt the 'ardent' readers among you will remember the reference of a few days ago

regarding not having seen or heard a

 SEDGE WARBLER

since the very small influx of April,

well in a nutshell we spoke too soon

as one, likely male, was giving it big licks at the

Irrigation Pond.

Having travelled no more than 300 yards from these 2 findings what came next

was in keeping with what was becoming a

Three-fold Rule as not 

 ONE

 not 

TWO

 but an unprecidented

THREE

 RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

were found within the

Solar Panel Compound.

We have got very used to frequent encounters with what we describe as a 'pair',

now we might have to get used to a Trio!

Perhaps enough surprises for one day, but not a bit of it as waiting in

the diagonally opposite corner of the compound and some distace away

 were found an estimated 200 mixed Gulls

represented by just

 HERRING GULL

and LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL

 Don't You Just Love 'Em!

Eventually, we got around to the other traps from where, as already reported, there was nothing new, but just sat there listening to the likes of

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

'chacking away',

finding our first for the year

MARBLED WHITE BUTTERFLY

 getting a first 'blurred' look through the chain-link fenceing at the only

 BEA Passenger Jet

no longer obscured from veiw now British Airways are pulling out apace,

while adding yet another

Eddie Stobbard Lady

to the already extensive list.

 HERE'S LOOKING FORWARD ALREADY TO TOMORROW,

BRING IT ON!