Bird of Prey - Uriah Heep

I can see that look that says beware
Try to move in closer if you dare
So I will sit and play my waiting game
And for a while I know she'll do the same
Oh No!

 As is the norm at first light we cast our optics over the Moth Traps hoping to view a brimming catch, but it just was not the way! However, had things been different we would likely have missed the the highlight of the day as we spotted this hapless young

SPARROWHAWK

in some sort of tussle with the

Tennis Net

Watches like an eagle from its eerie
Then like a bird of prey she captures me
But I am older and more wise than you
Bird of prey straight into me you flew
Oh No!

Game, Set and Match Bagsy!
Not a sign of anything new across all of the traps so by way of compensation some 'eye-catchers' from the past.

RED-TIPPED CLEARWING

male

and
female
EMPOROR MOTHs
along with

ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH

SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH

and both for comparison.
About to mount the Trusty Steed overhead flew the first c2

CORMORANTs
seen for 2 or 3 months now.
A similar picture was painted at the Eco Recycle Works as we happened upon a lone

COLLARED DOVE

with, most unusually, not a juvenile in sight?

At the Gravel Pit we caught up with what was likely to have been one of the 'high flyers' previously

CORMORANT and a potential 'left and right'of

COMMON SNIPE

as they would be refered to by the shooting fraternity!
(not that they shoot them here we should add)
The male

GADWALL
still remains on his own here while twixed there and the Sewerage Works the first

LITTLE EGRET

we have ever seen perched in a tree across our patch,

before heading for the Works themselves and finding

the first
GOLDCREST
since the Spring, along with a family party of

COAL TITs

with a charming little nipper

until this vocal

WREN

brought our wander to an end while hoping for a better haul from the Traps tomorrow.