Tuesday 23 February 2021

Just What I (We) Needed - The Cars

 The full album Cars - Cars well worth a listen if unfamiliar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvy2yqUHLLg

Moths Ahoy

with c4 Insects as we found one clinging onto Slight Return, a second clinging to the woodwork and bringing up the 

Hat Trick another 2 in a Trap and all, maybe not surprisingly, Firsts for the Year.

CHESTNUT
x 2
DOTTED BORDER
along with
POWDERED QUAKER
Another damp and dreary start with the light rain quickly giving way and the
Dawn Chorus
becoming more raucous as the days go on with
SONG THRUSH
and
WREN
being prime contributers.
As the Sun rose so the drizzle diminished and while venturing south came across c2
LAPWING
considered straggles as the main flock disappeared days ago, but with the cold maybe yet not over there is still time for a returen.
Up north and through the returning drizzle this
COLLARED DOVE
only just 'made the cut' while at the Gravel Pit c7
CANADA GEESE
had dropped in including the
Fool on the Hill
along with it's
pal with an
abraded / pale
face and head.
That is when the drizzle set in again
but still we persisted to find this
GREAT TIT
looking likely to be prospecting a nest site in this hole in a metal fence post??
By the time we reached the Solar Panel Compound the weather had become close to prohibitive
but still managed to spot a
COMMON BUZZARD in company with a MAGPIE
atop one of the accumulators along with the first sign of
Panel Cleaning
and
Grass Mowing
Operations.
The Owner of the Company always alerts me to such works and ideal to have a distanced catch-up!
The day concluded at
Parley Pond
was engaged in a 

Bath and Dhobie as us Seafarers put it!
You Can't go on, Thinking Nothings Wrong oh No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

Who's Gonna 'Drive' You Home Tonight?