Ride a White Swan - T Rex

 It's likely all the talk of dusk and dawn choruses that has brought the / a

TAWNY OWL
back into focus, a first of the Winter

as flashing-up at 23:00 last night and still at it while enjoying our morning coffee at 05:30.
Otherwise, no Moth action overnight, maybe due to the Zero° on the gauge, while our pals the

HOUSE SPARROWs

were at it even before the upper limb of the Sun kissed the horizon, while at the
Irrigation Pond it was found that the newly arrived family of

MUTE SWANs

had abandoned the cramped condition there for the wider expances of the

Gravel Pit while this lady

PHEASANT

along the now repaired fence-line gets a look-in as having been in the very same spot each morning for 2 weeks now - food must be plentiful,

while within

something of a real surprise

as we record very few, if any at all,

MISTLE THRUSHs

across the Winter months and also there a late but now rotting

PUFFBALL
Niether here, or across the southern section of our area, have we yet recorded a
Northern Thrush - Fieldfare / Redwing while seemingly plentiful elsewhere but we did spot ripening

MISTLETOE

which had us 'puckering up' in anticipation!
"We sould be so Lucky"!