What's Another Year - Johnny Logan

By the time we publish our next Post the year will be well and truly over for sure, but we still have one in the locker just to bid farewell to a none to shabby 2021.

Once again it was

"an orangy sky, always with some other guy. It's just a broken lullaby, bye bye Love, bye bye Love".

from The Cars eponomous debut album The Cars 

Between this image and the next Sky shot came something of a miracle in the form of only our second ever, across the garden, or even the southern section of our patch a

WOODCOCK,
a borrowed image,

followed by more minor wonders from the Moth Traps including

WINTER MOTH
only the second of the year after the first trapped on the 10/01/2021.

SILVER Y
a brace of

DECEMBER MOTHs

along with the tiniest of Slug and

SNAIL

racing along at the

Only Pace it Knows.

At the main pond the only thing to delay us was the local female

KESTREL
in the continuing gloom while up north the

MOORS RIVER
now looks to be in full spate which hopefully, given the continuing heavy rain,
will soon metamorphose into Water Meadows and the usual attraction for more
WILDFOWL.

At the Sewerage Works this

WOOD PIGEON
was snooped upon while having a Bath 'n' Dhobie until a second minor miracle occured as the Herdsman showed up to repatriate the 2 escapee

BELTED GALLOWAY
(maybe a minor miracal on its own)

but had we not stopped for a CHAT (no pun intended) the likelihood of spotting this lone

BLACK REDSTART

may never have happened?
This bird being of the Chat family.
Finally, the mirical of them all as considering it safe to make only my second visit to a 'brand new human being', to whom I have been given the Highest Honour of being Uncle Bagsy!!!!

DYLAN
seen here with Dad Loz and named after BOB himself

Once upon a time you dressed so fine,

threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say “beware doll, you're bound to fall”,
you thought they were all kidding you.
You used to laugh about,
everybody that was hanging out.

and with Mum Chloe (once one of my Moth Appretices - Be Back Soon) and UNCLE Bagsy!

Now you don't talk so loud, now you don't seem so proud,
about having to be scrounging your next meal.

How does it feel?, How does it feel?
To be without a home, like a complete unknown,

like a rolling stone!

Also in attendance his older brother Ethan who had arrived to open his 'C' word gifts which, as can be seen, amounted to a full James Bond wardrobe.
That picture is oh so clear as back in 1962 after the showing of the first Bond film Dr. No and as a raw Boy Seaman there was never a chance of seeing me withoutsipping a

Vodka Martini -
Shaken not Stirred
always packing a

Walther PPK
and when asked my name it was simply
"Bond, James Bond"

but you can call me Premium!