Hearts of Oak - William Boyce

 Over the years it has become less and less likely to hear the single peeping of a

KINGFISHER
but strange happenings yesterday morning when a single bird was perched on the

garden pond fence and stratigically placed branch peeping away like billy-o?
Again another quiet day with its share of rain once again with all to report from the south being maybe 200 Wood Pigeons and 50 or 60 Chaffinch making the most of the horse paddocks plus a

RAINBOW
to cheer things up a bit.

Further north the absence of

TUFTED DUCK
had proved short lived as a

pair

female

us

had returned to the Irrigation Pond while further on

male

everything is looking Ship Shape on the Heath

now that mowing opperations have been completed.
Don't know what all that is about but like local Councils mowing the roadside verges
(one day a Monet painting the next the Gobi) it seems like everything has to be neat and tidy in Nature?

On our return to base it was also found that the

LIME and HOLM OAK

next door had been pruned but fortunately not too drastically as the Oak is undoubtedly
the only breeding site we have found here that supporsts the all too scarce

OAK RUSTIC
now annual, while the

COPPER CHOPPER

 keeps a weather-eye on us All!

Hearts of Oak are our Ships, Jolly Tars are our Men we always are ready - steady boys steady!