Dragonfly - Fleetwood Mac

A strange and slightly Spooky coincidence as this post was tacked together
on Saturday the 25th Inst (including Headline) the very day
Peter Green died - and then overlooked until now!
Despite the weather we did manage to capture a fine trio of
 First for the Year
Macro Moths

 FEN WAINSCOT

 BUFF FOOTMAN
along with

 LESSER BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING
plus a

 SOLDIER BEETLE
ant the very much needed

 ex-anglers Umbrella.
Between egg-trays we did scatter some bread on the lawn to see what

might be attracted, and in the event it was just

HOUSE SPARROW's
that reacted but none the less  welcome for all that!

 A noisy twin rotor helicopter flew overhead thought to be a
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
which flushed what little there was on the Irrigation Pond save for the now 'one dozen'

juvenile
MALLARD
while at the

 Irrigation Pond
the newly emerged male
EMPEROR DRAGONFLIES
seemed contented to bathe in what little sunshine there was

 while the missus got on with the important work of
OVIPOSITING
(egg laying)

 One, unusually, 'in the hand'!

 some with

COMMON BLUE DAMSELFLIES
hitching a lift while what is seemingly another new juvenile

 MOORHEN
cruised by passed what looks like the now abandoned

LITTLE GREBE

nest although it looks bigger than on the previous day?

On the way out there were yet another c2 juvenile

 MOORHEN

presumed not seen before even though they have some age about them.

At the gate to the Heath we were met by a pile of juvenile

 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
feathers likely predated by a Fox (found by Dave) as the

 DWARF GORSE

 starts to show it hand followed by something of a 'rarity' on this site.

SKYLARK

breed just across the boundry fence within the bounds of

 

Bournemouth International Airport

 but since our records began in 2014

there have been but c2 records either on the ground in in our air-space - STRANGE!
but what did invade our 'airspace', albeit briefly, was this lone

RAVEN
As it was Sunday, and there was a weather window, 
we followed our usual practice on that day to turn the 
Reptile Covers 

to find but a single
SMOOTH SNAKE 
as we also found a first blooming

 TEASEL

 which was hosting a
WHITE-TAILED BUMBLEBEE

 The NHS Airbuses are still plying the route between
Bournemoth and Beijing
while by my rekoning there is but a 'single' laid-up aircraft still with us
and it will be noted that our venture into 
Nocturnal Snapping

needs just a little more practice according to the
ROE DEER