Common People - Pulp

 With the now famous

RUGBY TORNAMENT
having finished a week ago we find ourselves just a little behind with the Posts, but who would know the differance? From hearsay, a fantastic gig (no more than 1,000 yards from the doorstep) all round with huge attendance, graet sportsmanship and wall to wall loud music.

Had it been any different we may have considered a complaint but as a veteran of the very first Bath Blues Festival (where unbeknown to anyone then the full pack of what were to emerge as Fleetwood Mac were playing in one band or another) c3 visits to Reading and of course the prize of them all,

the first Isle of Wight with my all time hero Jimi Hendrix performing, who is in a position to moan first!

With a

GARGANEY
in prospect at

LONGHAM LAKES
if we could force a furrow through the traffic we might also have brought a little more difference to the Posts which simply just didn't happen!

BLACK-HEADED GULL

haven't returned to our Patch quite yet and it will be a lot longer wait if we are to get a

WIGEON
at all and a miracle should a

GREAT CESTED GREBE

(the other of the pair)

should land here let alone breed.

TUFTED DUCK
absent since early Spring should return while

LITTLE EGRET

have appeared sporadically

throughout the 'warmer' months. As has been shown, and will be again,

CYGNETs
have been represented here and while on the subject of the 'young', oh but enough about me,

juvenile
GREAT CRESTED
would be welcome at any time.

Further up the lakes, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler and Willow Warbler continue in song without showing themselves, while

RED ADMIRALs
add a real splsh of colour.

Across the adjoining Water Meadows the young

CATTLE
are reaping the benifits of this lush area while

CORMORANT

and juvenile

HERRING GULL
seemed content just passing time in the Sun!