Thursday 27 August 2020

It's a Sair Ficht for Half a Loaf - Jockanese

As my moaning Aberdonian Rig Mates might say!
Translation:- Life is hard work. It's a sore fight and you only get half of what you want.

Given the recent weather pattern that's just about the saying we need to highlight the situation as 
Wild Things 
remain reluctant to show
and difficult to find, so we had to put in an extra shift yesterday!
Now with 2 Moths Traps running we easily doubled our catch with both Moths released immediately after identification!
 Just about the only Bird anywhere close to the homestead was this
 fairly obliging 
HERRING GULL
then without delay we set-sail for more northerly climbs.
Nothing at the Irrigation Pond was acceptable compared with what was found at the
Gravel Pit
 where the
LITTLE GREBE 
nest was found ragged and abandoned, had the Heron done its worst
or was it again down to the weather?
 Both Grebe's looked very much as if in mourning
 with both 'close-ups' and
 video clip
painting a dismal picture!
No good lamenting over that, it's the
Law of the Wild
so ever onward.
c2
 WHEATEAR
 were found in
quick succession on the Heath, with a 'close cousin'
 STONECHAT
which hasn't been recorded here now fo 8 days??
seperating the 2.
 2nd
WHEATEAR
 Then There Were c6
 AIRBUS's that is and we have been awaiting the arrival of the
 PUFF BALLs
in the
 Solar Panel Compound
you can set yer watch by them!
 BLACK-HEADED GULL's
also remain there with a couple of adults now creeping in and
 "oh YES we'll have some of that"
as even more absentees
 are welcomed back.
 In this instance it has been weeks
but nonetheless it's still the c3 of them!
 Another 'new' Eddie Stobart to the collection,
we ain't seen Ceri Charlie here before.
Here's hopeing we can keep up the momentum?