Prepare to Repel Boarders

 HEADLINE NEWS

In the name of security we have decided to dig a moat around the

Hacienda

to keep the Barbarians out - under the guise of a new irrigation system

while for the 4th consecutive morning

the familiar song of a now 'showy'

CETTI'S WARBLER
has enticed us from the hammock!

Unfortunately, the continuing adverse weather conditions have detracted from Moth Trap returns with no more than c3 Insects from c5 traps, with c2

MUSLIN MOTHs
along with a First for the Year

YELLOW BELLE
a Record Breaker for late May of the unwanted kind along with this unidentified

APHID
as padding.

As a reminder this was the scene at the Irrigation Pond, in fact the little cutting there the

WATER RAIL/s
reside.
The absence of

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

over quite a number of days now is being viewed as a 'posative' in hopes that they might be breeding, which would be something of a coup with this being the

with this being the lone / unattached bird - we have never clapped eyes on a juvenile of this species!
All else amounted to no decrease in wind speed across the

Blasted Heath
a loan and now seemingly scarce

GREY HERON
on the Moors River

while the

MOORHEN

chicks continue to thrive on the Main Pond but still no news from the

Mute Swan Antenatal Clinic!

WE RETURN TO TAIWAN TOMORROW!