Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

 The first Senior Moment of the year happened as part of the recent New Year's Day Trilogy when we forgot to post the Mammals that were recorded on the day. IT certainly won't be the last!

RABBIT

ROE DEER

chewing the cud in the gloom while the

GREY SQUIRRELs
were concentrating hard on producing the 2021 vintage!
Having activated but a single Moth Trap none of the hoped for were secured but
Stranger in the Night

a well 'saddled'

EARTHWORM
was the very last thing we would have expected, how on earth (excuse the pun) do they get in?
It was left to gamebirds to kick the day off in Birdland as this female

PEASANT

trotted along the tennis court fence-line while also right outside our door the new arrival

GUINEAFOWL
paid what has now become a daily visit

having dubbed the one we have our eye on as
Sidney Poitier

and the others Paxo 1 - 2 and 3
otherwise all that could be found across the Southern Sector was a lone

MISTLE THRUSH 

along with this overlooked clump of

MISTLETOE

and just as an aside, Australia has a fabulous bird that survives soley on this usually posionous plant not surprisingly known as

MISTLETOEBIRD 

Up north while watching this pair of

 

TEAL
and once again finding no sign of the 3rd Little Grebe, in flew our first new addition to the 2021 List

KINGFISHED
which entertained for 5 minutes or so making for species number 53.

More

FLYTIPPING
along the Bridleway we ply everyday, for which it is thought the authorities know the culprit and would suggest

2 weeks in the Stocks at Tower Hill - wot say you?

but in all that time we have never noticed

APPLES
on this tree close to the Sewerage Works.
Reaching the gateway to the Heath another addition was spotted 

on the fenceline a

STONECHAT
followed within by the bird of the day a female

MERLIN
the image having been dragged from the archive, while concluding a decent wander with another

STONECHAT