Empty spaces, what are we living for?
Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on
Does anybody know what we are looking for?
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line
Does anybody want to take it anymore?
Absolutely no point swinging out of the hammock early yesterday as, uncannily, for the 3rd day running, Thursday’s heavy rain started at 04:30 precisely! However, far more welcome was the +10°C hanging on doggedly in similar fashion.
With field work hampered for the best part of the day we did see and hear a few things but the Canon lay redundant throughout forcing us to rely totally on the archive for the images. Even at first knockings and despite the pitter patter of rather large raindrops we could already hear one of the resident
River Stour.
With our self imposed journalistic licence we feature images of one of last year’s juveniles which were reared in the
in there to incubate?
and the fairly similar
Outside of that bracket was also the rather attractive looking
Arrival at the Irrigation Pond was met with some bad and some good where the Posh
had left their mark, looking like good kit to me, and the start of some original images!
Along with the now settled c4 Mute Swans was a likely 'newly arrived' juvenile
LITTLE GREBE
Along with single's of
and
On the way to the Heath there was evidence that the first of the
"little Gentlemen in the Black Velvet Waiscoat"
had arrived
that is and which some still salute today. Thought by many to have been the demise of despised
(King Billy Hey)
In 1702 his horse Sorrel tripped on a molehill, threw his rider who broke his shoulder adding to his already frail health and died soon after to the delight of many!
Doubtless, the rich earth within the Slolar Panel Compound will be riddled with such before year's end!
2 x Belted Galloways (left) Old English White steer (centre) along with 2 x Shetlands, while also in neat rows just a few of the laid up
as their pals are now lined up ready to
with services already commenced and a
That may well have been the last of it had not Tuesday's inclement weather not postponed Victualing and Bunkering and bringing with it the biggest 'Long Shot' of them all. With the airport fence directly ahead of our driving back, out of a now clearing sky flew, directly down the runway towards us a
performing a carbon copy flight pattern of a similar or same Heron a few weeks ago as reported here. Three and occasionally 4 have been reported from the nearby Longhan Lakes for a few months now, so maybe this is the Prodigal returning with no intent to brand it biblically wasteful.
