Yellow - Coldplay

 The scarcity of a vocal and overflying

SKYLARK
as the first bird of the day would have been enough to slake our thirst

for the rest of the wander, but its popularity and scarcity value was to be short lived!
Having been an Asdic (later to become Sonar) Operator in surface Warships and Submarines alike, probably the best of my senses is my hearing, it was just the rest of me that they had to amputate! Even before the above had disappeared there was the quiet calling of a

YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER
coming from the nearby bushes.

which is an extremely 'rare' bird across the whole of the Recording Area.

Only the second to be found in the garden here

with another along the Sewerage Works Fence a couple of years ago

puts the grand total at just c3 over a 14 year period. This find also coincided with a 'fall' of the species across Portland and with no more than fleeting glimpses the 'stills' come from the Buchan Alpha Oil Rig, where they were anual and quite numerous and the 'clips' from the Somerset Levels 2 years ago. Well, it was safe to say that we were not going to be able to upstage that but hanging around Slight Return II for a while did produce a few minor returns.

The STARLING flock is

murmurising again, as a

GREY SQUIRREL

appeared to have located a

food source as the first of the 'heavy mob'

BEOING 737 

owned by Maleth Aero now plying cargo on a daily basis between
Bournemouth International Airport and Dublin.
followed by a record number of c7

PHEASANTs

were watched scurrying across the lawn while yet another

GULFSTREAM - G650 belonging to the

Bahrain Royal Fligh
has also been put through its paces seemingly after something og a refit.

No need to go any further, but the pull is too strong and we did find the

MUTE SWANs
at the Irrigation pond still tugging reeds to the Island.

Met at the gate to the Heath by the

OLD ENGLISH WHITE
steer

munching away but thereafter nothing, but we had alraedy done
Very Well!

We once again thank John Gifford for the Aircraft Info.