Bye Baby Bunting - Nursery Rhyme

 

When we made the polite request to alert your Friends and Families to our humble Daily Ditty's, we did so a little tongue in cheek as feeling that most, if not all, had alreday done so. Seems not as Tuesday's MAGICAL 2,769 hits were blown right out of the water by this mornings UNBELIEVABLE count of 9,101. Whoever you are, we thank you wholeheartedly while the Pimms and Pint at the Red Lion Bristol have been replaced by a bottle of 2001 Chateau 'd Yquem! Keep up the Good Work Please and Thanks again. 

While overnight temperatures have, by and large, been low it hasn’t all been

frost and ice in fact we logged a balmy +6°C across one period of darkness bringing with it a couple of most welcome ‘migrants’.

WHITE-SPECK

along with

the usually far more numerous

DARK SWORD-GRASS
As if that were not fillip enough we headed north to find a full trio of

GREEN SANDPIPER

at the Gravel Pit

which more or less immediately

took to the wing with only this single returning for a

Photo Shoot

while the hour on the Heath found not a single grounded bird

but a bonus look at the irreststable

bare
ASPENs and BIRCHs

ESCAPEE BELTED GALLOWAYs
which it would seem, after a few weeks now, the Herdsman has not missed and the now moth-balled

Moth Monitoring Station.
Considered fortuitous, as we wouldn't usually cover the same ground twice,

a return to the
Gravel Pit

turned up this

REED BUNTING
which most unusually is the first, and likely last, of the rapidly disappearing
AUTUMN!