Monday, 7 December 2020

Never on a Sunday - Petula Clark

"Oh No Not Again"

SUNDAY SPECIAL

WALLCREEPER
Our Own
Modest Efforts - Bulgaria 2007
 along with extract from the fine tomb that is
4 years too early
for this kid!
Otherwise, with the early morning
TAWNY OWL
back in business at least there was something early to get us started which unfortunately didn't follow through at the
MOTH TRAPS
where ony BEETLEs were in evidence - there's a Poem there.
Some one came knocking at my wee, small door;
Someone came knocking; I'm sure-sure-sure;
I listened, I opened, I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a stirring in the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest the screech-owl's call,
Only the cricket whistling while the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,
At all, at all, at all.

Some One by Walter de la Mare

 Across the 2 northerly ponds the female Tufted Duck, a few Teal and the regular trio of Little Grebe remain but an addition to the clan came by way of this smart

GREY WAGTAIL
seemingly
finding
plenty
to eat and if you are doing the same over breakfast at this time you may choose to
look away until you are finished!
with feathers on the fence-line and
feathers on the deck
it was 2 Big Boys as done it
and then
flew away.
The carcass of the hapless Wood Pigeon had gone by the time of our return
so likely they got their breakfast as well as our readers?
All on the Heath amounted to no more than a single
MISTLE THRUSH
along with a
constantly gaping
BLACKBIRD

along with a

ROE DEER
a string of eyecatching
BRACKET FUNGI
and ever blooming
GORSE
which is one of very few plants that can be seen in flower across every month of the year.
Not a single Bird or anything else living, except for myself, in the
Solar Panel Compound
but at the
LATE BRONZE AGE TUMULI
BROCK the BADGER
footprints 'n' all.
had been most industrious as had
Mr and Mrs MOLE
directly outside of Slight Return but symetrically in line.
The picture just 10 minutes later - but still raining but dried up nicely before daylight!