If I Had A 'HAMMER' - Trini Lopez

 While the Adiction must be slaked and the Hungry Must be Fed there has to be a degree of 'sensibility' brought into the equation. Not something that we have ever tried before, but surely on the Bucket List, are we prepared to burn off 2 x cubes of bunkers to wake up to

Frozen Traps in sub-zero temperatures for the likes of last night's catch of just

2 x COMMON QUAKER

2 x CLOUDED DRAB

a single
SMALL QUAKER

and an equally lone

HEBREW CHARACTER?
The Jury is still out.
Equally it might be asked if any Birder, in their right mind, considers there to be such an animal as a 'Drab' Birds, which were there such a thing, and a list drawn the

CORN BUNTING
would likely fall into the Top Three! So drab do we find them that for the forth time since Spring sprung we took the one hour drive, under

Leaded Skies,
to hopefully click and vid before they disappear into the breeding season

while en-route we captured

female (top) and male
YELLOWHAMMER

before one of the Tumuli at Maiden Castle followed by

SKYLARKs

all in good voice

and then that gentle rasping sound of our target.

In days gone by it was not unusual to visit this site to find 100+

of these little 'belters'

with

SKYLARK
accompanying in the background.
Back at Base Camp we once again found that the now resident Gulls to be irresistable with both

BLACK-HEADED

looking as smart as they will ever be and

HERRINGs
on par.