but more particularly the caravan window, from where again we a captured the unexpected, this time
unaware
and seemingly totally relaxed
JACKDAW
while enroute to the Moth Traps
while enroute to the Moth Traps
BUFF-TAILED BUMBLEBEE
WHITE-TAILED BUMBLEBEE
plus a bonus
plus a bonus
RED ADMIRAL
were spotted on the wing long before getting anywhere close, a good start to the day
were spotted on the wing long before getting anywhere close, a good start to the day
further endorsed by a First for the Year from the traps
HORSE CHESTNUT
However, a call from the Groundsman at the Golf Club got us scampering as reporting c2
SHEDUCK
flying around, but we never did catch the male in flight,
but worthy of investigation as not only another
First for the Year
but also an annual breeder hereabouts - here's hopeing..
(male left with female)
With no reappearance of the Marsg Tits being the downside, the up was another gathering of
COLLARED DOVEswhich might suggest another successful breeding year?
News from the Solar Panel Compound shows that the Sheep have now settled in, and will doubbless be worthy of an update Post of their own in days to come, while the
BADGERs
appear to have abandoned the Sett there
having made 
Great Excavations
(William Shakespeare)
On the Heath
where among the
detritus
PINE CONES etc
still stand the
Mushroom Marks
of the
(male left with female)
With no reappearance of the Marsg Tits being the downside, the up was another gathering of
News from the Solar Panel Compound shows that the Sheep have now settled in, and will doubbless be worthy of an update Post of their own in days to come, while the
PINE CONES etc
Mushroom Marks
Foresters Pine Clearance - Nice Touch.
also among all of this we are still recording
WOODLARK
on a daily basis
YES!
while finding among others our first of the year
SELFHEAL
and
"We'll gather
VIOLETs
in the spring again, and walk together down a leafy lane"!
but not a word to the Herdsman about the escapee 'rare breed'
OLD ENGLISH GOAT
We had to make a Treble Take (naked eye, binnoculars and photograph) on this to be sure we were not seeing things, before calling in Richard, we don't touch such things.
Despite that, it would seem on his arrival it had it had re-established itself with the others with no signs of a 'bolt hole'!
YES!
while finding among others our first of the year
and
VIOLETs
in the spring again, and walk together down a leafy lane"!
but not a word to the Herdsman about the escapee 'rare breed'
We had to make a Treble Take (naked eye, binnoculars and photograph) on this to be sure we were not seeing things, before calling in Richard, we don't touch such things.
Despite that, it would seem on his arrival it had it had re-established itself with the others with no signs of a 'bolt hole'!
The path is clear though no eyes can see, the course laid down long before.
And so with God's and men, the Goats remain inside their pen,
though many times they've seen a way to leave.
And so with God's and men, the Goats remain inside their pen,
though many times they've seen a way to leave.
A slant on the Genesis classic Firth of Fifth
from the album Selling England by the Pound
