In the Mooo-d - Glenn Miller

Half a decent morning again on Monday and with an overnight of +6°C, dropping a few

degrees by dawn it was thought worth running one Moth Trap but enticing only a few more Flies.

With no more than a

MEADOW PIPIT
 up to and including the patch opposite Eco it was novel to see an

AIRBUS A340

in open flight heading into the westerly breeze soon after take off from
Bournemouth International Airport

before shaping up for Malasia and another cargo of PPE, rather than the usual point blank views from the caravan window on take-off.
Again the Irrigation Pond drew a blank but just around the corner the pair of

TEAL

with a very smart male

with his overly coy

Lady Friend had returned to the Gravel Pit.
Met at the gateway to the heath by the seemingly fractious

OLD ENGLISH WHITE STEER

there was very little else to keep us entertained only saved by an

obliging but lone

STONECHAT

The Sun drenched Oaks at the Moth Monitoring Station while searching, without success, for
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

along with this equally static

ROE DEER
along with a brief return to Sunday's visit to a windswept
Longham Lakes

with a selection of the very few Birds we saw there including, as they appear,
Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Little Egret, Black-headed Gull and Great White Egret
before returning to find one of the ever increasing herd of

LLAMA
as a welcoming committee!
We feel a visit to the Archive coming on if things do not buck up!