Days of Future Past - Moody Blues - Part I

 What with gallivanting to the very extremities of this Sceptred Isle, waltzed with a Walrus (metaphorically speaking) and suffering a serious generator breakdown no wonder we have gotten behind with the Posts - so here’s something of a ‘catch-up’!

With this not being exactly the best image we have ever taken (while our readership as better judges)  probably believe it is, it certainly qualifies as the most emotive of the month thus far! The chestnet face and white spot at the base of the bill might help to show it as a

LITTLE GREBE
but not only that, it is sitting on a NEST while the other potential parent bird kept obbo

from close by.
There has been none of the usual singing, dashing from one end of the pond to the other in display, no sign of copulation nor that of nest building. Otherwise in Moth-Ville additions to the Year List

include the delicate looking
GREY BIRCH

the far more bulky looking

along with a

PEBBLE HOOK-TIP

while this
BLACK SLUG
 was providing breakfast for this Mossie and a

LEMON SLUG  also within

In exactly the same way as it, or another, did so last year a f.f.y.

LESSER WHITETHROAT

has been frisky while knocking out the vocals

at the root of Chapel Lane

PIED WAGTAIL

have also started building inside a

CONVERTER CABINET

in the
Solar Panel Compound
but don't know if this

almost static stance is anything to do with courtship?

While this Lamb, looking 'brown bread', is very much alive and just snoozing.
We very nearly captured these 2 (pair?) of

SISKIN

collecting nesting material but too slow on the video function but quickly redressed when this

Buck ROE DEER showed up to feed and finally, for now at least, the only

WHIMBREL
to have graced our turf this year - more tomorrow we hope!