He Who Pays the Piper

 For 3 cosecutive mornings now the

dawn silence has been broken by the most welcome yelps of an unseen

LITTLE OWL
leading to hopes that it may have found something to sustain it

overwinter and maybe attract a pal?

Weatherwise, it remains fairly dull but still a few bits and pieces around to keep the interest up especially at the Moth Traps with

SATELLITE

MOTTLED UMBER
and

YELLOW-LINE QUAKER.
in numbers, being consigned to the log but nothing new.
At the main pond it was a case of

"if the Devil should cast his net" with a swarm of
MUSCOVY's to starboard and

EMU
to port but yet again with no sign of Rod Hull.

Not an unfamiliar sight at the Fencing Centre where at least 2 of these

Heavily Laden Lorries
turn up every day stowed well below the Plimsol Line.

On the Heath both

NUTHATCH
and

TREECREEPER

were seen and heard

which could be the case every day should we put the time in but then,
more than a mile from where they were last seen, the

wide ranging

and so photogenic

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

were encountered once again.
We have towed a wide audience of sea-going vessels astern over the years with both

Harbour Tugs and Ocean-going Salvage Tugs

but never one of these - Tug and Tow.
All that could be seen through the tree-line along the Moors River was this lone

EGYPTIAN GOOSE
while in the
Solar Panel Compound
was found

a second flush of

GOLDEN WAXCAP
the first wave having disappeared weks ago.
To end, the pilot of this local

PIPER PA-28-161
was flying in ever decreasing circles above Slight Return II
without disappearing!

CALLS THE TUNE!