JAB-BERWOCKY Part I

 The main thrust of the day was the Covid Booster Jab for which we had to make the drive to Weymouth (including Portland), a method in our madness as it kind of forces us to keep up the association with what for many, many years were our home towns. With high hopes of finding some interesting nature en-root but there was the attention to the Moth Traps to address first

which included a First for the Year

DECEMBER MOTH
along with another

FEATHERED THORN
Unhampered by the previously reported Major Road Works within 30 minutes we we at Lane End and already hearing the gritty refrain of

YELLOWHAMMER
(male)

(female)
which seemingly are still being fed by the new residents of the Farmhouse and or General Public?

It took a while for the first

BROWN RAT
to appear but worth it as boarding our (now) trusty steed we may have missed the high-flying

RED KITE
had there been no delay with the next Port of Call, with time still on our side, being

but Bird Watching not as we like it!

Firstly just c3 equally high flying and almost out-of-sight

GOLDEN PLOVER

reducing us to a visit to the archive to bring you representationwhich was also the case with the
None Event of the Year

with the

SNOW BUNTING
(we don't see them performing like this in the good old U of K)
still in the now cleared Sun Flower Field but viewed as an ancient

Charlie Chaplin
might be, a small flash of white, a similar flash of grey which wouldn't have reached the notebook let's say on Bird Race Day!
(images taken on the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea)

In company were also c3 also reluctant
BRAMBLING

which, like the
SKYLARKs,

were following the
HARROW

while we thank the Gentleman with the telescope for allowing us to get a little closer to the subject matter. To be continued......