A Relatively Dull Day at the Office

    Despite the overnight temperature remaining in low double figures the much hoped for early year Hat Trick

did not materialise, although if our friend Bomber down there in Weymouth had been a little more generous with his well won

CHESTNUT
we would have done so!

However, the gloomy, rainy, windy day started once again with a 'vocalist', always most welcome,

which continued singing well into daylight hours when we were able to catch just a little of the

delightful

strains

of a

none too distant

SONG THRUSH
and how welcome on such a day would it have been had this

Mutant Goose
been a thoroughbred Greylag to add to the Year List?
Similarly afflicted are the

MUSCOVY DUCKs

which we have recorded 'wild' in South America.

While it was considered hardly worth the effort, the

STARLING
High Wire Dance Routine
was captured but also thought worthy of a little backing from the

archive of a

Bird in the Hand!
While there was no connection, it was a fact that the further north we got
the worse the weather became but did once again crack-off a couple of shots of

variably plumaged

PIED WAGTAIL
soon to be joined by a

GREY WAGTAIL

flushed by a van

before the video clip could be fully completed.
With the weather now prohibitve and all other areas seemingly devoid
we might have added this final note a week ago when there was a

large influx of

WRENs

but it sometimes takes us

CODGERS

time to do so!