KITES - Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

who later metamorphosed into the sensational

GENTLE GIANT

 Well, there cannot be many better ways to kick off the day than finding an E-Mail from your 4 Grandchildren in Phnom Penn, Cambodia along with this image of a

BARN OWL
which having not seen one there myself rushed to Google to check out thier

distribution - the Owl that is!
Thanks Lizzy, Benny (the finder), Alex and Fred and well done!

At just +1°C and a matching ground frost there was little to recover from the

Moth Traps

with ‘Best in Show' being another

SPOTTED CHESTNUT

and an

ANTs NEST

with the previous one shown now nonexistent.
It is not unusual to find a 'mischief' of

MAGPIES
in the Solar Panel Compound
but today there was something of an added attraction for them as finding the first

Dead Ewe of the Season - Warts and All Here
which we readily report to the Shepherdess but would rather it be left as an attractant for maybe a

RED KITE,
which we haven't recorded so far this year, or maybe something better.
Our next find, or more accurately the next Bird to find us, is something of a 'rarity' here a fly-over

CURLEW
which despite being only a short distance from 

Poole Harbour,
where they are plentiful, there have only ever been c4 records over our 8 year residence, but also

triggered memories of this
ALBINO / LEUCISTIC 

individual found at Church Norton, Hants as far back as 23/08/2011.

A rather nice day for the small herd of c3

ROE DEER

on the Heath
while the neighbours

CHAROLAIS

on the far bank of the
MOORS RIVER

were less inclined to movement so didn't disturb the

half a dozen or so

COMMON SNIPE

on the closer bank.
Nearing the end another male

MUTE SWAN
was found looking serene on the
River Stour
while in the fresh breeze the

DANCING DAFFODILS
looked to good to ignor!