Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel

 Just a glance at the currant state of the

RIVER STOUR
(looking east)

what used to be North Bank to South Bank

and to the West, just 150 yards from our own front door,
suggested that there won't be much found there for a few days yet!
However, the very opposite was the case as scanning the Southern Sector, but more particularly the pylons, as expectations rocketed. Not a hope in hell of confirming our suspicions with binnoculars alone, this is annually about the only time we ever have to resort to the trusty telescope

to confirm a

PEREGRINE
at great distance, with maybe needless to say having to resort to the archive for the stills.
With such a capture and 'first for year' under the belt it was highly unlikely it would be upstaged but we carried on regardless! Things remained exactly the same the the 2 more northerly watercourses while a number? of

BULLFINCH
(male)

(female)

entertained us along the course of the
Sewerage Works Fence.
Very little was the bad news right across the Heath but seemingly some concern when finding

DEAN'S DITCH

clogged with effluent?
Something of a miracle at the
Rare Breeds Compound

as all of the Goats
5x Bagots, 2x Old English and the single French Alpine had consigned themselves into one frame

but not showing much activity.
Just like thier Ol' Dad here, only moving when you absolutely have to!

Otherwise it was just left to a single
ROBIN

along with a 10 second rather pale

STONECHAT
before returning back to base to find the

GUINEAFOWL
(now part of the daily picture just outside of the homestead)

fratanising with the local
HERRING GULLs

and also

continuously feeding.