Spider in my Web - Ten Years After

Now there's a band to contend with, for those who remember

Alvin Lee - Lead Guitar / Vox,  Leo Lyons - Bass, Ric Lee - Drums and Chick Churchill - Keys.

 Despite the relatively dense mist and the continuing rain again we lean partly on the passed couple of days but there was surely something of the Mountain Coming to Mohamed moment as at early doors we found a First for the Year

FIGURE of 80

perched on a windowsill

while a decent sized 'pod' of

ROOKs
were pillaging the bird-feeders trying to slake the insatiable appetite of

this 'ere juvenile presumed from the local rookery while from the home traps came another 'addition'

CYPRESS CARPET
(relating to the tree rather than the country)
while on the Main Pond

all c7 of the recent hatchlings survive

while amongst them

there is something of a stranger as this is either an

'albino'

or 'leucistic' whatever the difference may be?
The 2 ponds on the way to a mist logged Heath still holds nothing more than a lone

LITTLE GREBE
with the only sign of procreation being the single chick of some 6 or 7 weeks ago.

NO or YES the Heath didn't look at all promising either but once we got throgh the plethora of

FUNNEL WEB SPIDER TRAPs

of which there must be many, many Thousands both

SMALL ANGLE SHADES

along with

THE FLAME
were added to the 2021 List.
It would seem with the passing of each day the Spiders spin larger webs

snarring on this occassion a hapless

CREAM-SPOT TIGER
while what we are calling a

BROWN CHINA MARK
(we don't do Micros)
was hitching a ride via this
POPLAR HAWK-MOTH

Otherwise, all else that showed up was the same

GREY HERON

perched on the very same post inside the
Solar Panel Compound
making it no less unusual to be found there as the wander ended with a pure bred

DOG ROSE BUSH

unlike the 'plastic' ones published last week.