Misty - Johnny Mathis (and too much in love)

 “Oh, Flippin’ Ek”, an expression regularly used while in the Royal Navy to highlight our displeasure of this or that! Today, it was again more directed at the ‘gloom’ in part.

A combination of Mist, Ground Frost and Wind didn't contribute to putting a Spring in the Step

but to find the

ROOKs
back in town was something of a decent beginning, but with overnight temperatures remaining in 'minus'figures there has been no further Moth Trap action.

No more than one of the local
WOOD PIGEONs

c3 of the now c11

MUTE SWANs

across the Recording Area

favouring the ditch rather than the open water of the
Main Pond

while further south the lone

PIED WAGTAIL
still finds sustinance atop the
Dung Heap.

There was sharp contrast in weather conditions further north
(looking in that direction along the main bridleway)
but little difference with the residents except for the arrival of a single

CANADA GOOSE
now joining the c3

TUFTED DUCKS

followed by something of a minor coup

as what might be considered a 'pair' of
LITTLE GREBE
hove into view just at the right moment.
Additionally, there are another considered

PAIR

in far more advanced plumage at the

Gravel Pit

could be at it before the month is out?

Our wander ended with a

Fly Past across a Clear Blue Sky of the

COASTGUARD RESCUE HELICOPER
another timely reminder of how our Emergency Services have taken care of us
across these trying timess!