Tuesday 9 March 2021

Bye - Bye Love - The Cars

 A little consternation started the day right outside our door

as one of the
GUINEAFOWL
seemed to have lost its
Get Out of Jail Free Card
to much kerfuffle, while we have been very much enjoying the phases of the low zenith
ORANGY MOON
still showing well into daylight.
It's an Orangy sky, always it's some other guy.
It's just a broken lullaby, Bye Bye Love!

The overnight temperature had been just -4°C which did deter us from flashing up the Moth Traps, but on the plus side hopes were high that the conditions may very well attract more Birds!

At pond-side this lone
PIED WAGTAIL
was already Hoovering up all it could find before a couple of
DUNNOCK
had also flashed up the natural instinct to survive.
Not alone in that the Berry Bushes at the Manor Car Park
Many Dozens of
FIELDFARE

ably assisted by a single

male
BLACKBIRD
were swalloing the Berries whole
while those not so naturally endowed
such as
GOLDFINCH
had to peck around the peripheries
until the crop was full.
A little further along the Southern Bridleway
a small flock of much overlooked
HOUSE SPARROWs
were also making the most of the
Famine Fest!
A glance across the adjacent field took in the clump of bare
ASH TREEs
there which always put on a good show in late Spring as the last of the
Common Woodlanders to burst into Leaf!
Time to head north where the now confirmed 'pair of most unobliging
LITTLE GREBE
have followed suit with their pals around the corner at the Gravel Pit by having built a nest
and where along with another, or the same, gaggle of Canada Geese were entertaining
female
and
male
GADWALL
as a pair.
male
and
female
TEAL
along with a single
MOORHEN
while across the full expanse Heath, Moors River and the Sewerage Works
only this small gathering of
JACKDAWs
Regaurdless of the above the day was surely contender for the
Best Day of the Season
thus far with the temperature just kissing, and holding on to double figures to accompany
Wall to Wall Sunshine!
"now, where them there Moth Traps"?

Substitution, mass confusion, clouds inside your head
Involving all my energies, until you visited
With your eyes of porcelain and of blue, they shock me into sense
You think you're so illustrious, you call yourself intense!   
Cars