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