Colour My World - Backstreet Boys

 If nothing else we certaily got a blaze of colour out of yesterday's sortie but, unless you count the persistant 'cackling' of the c3 (the other camera-shy)

GUINEAFOWL
it is believed we have heard the last of the Dawn Chorus for this year. However, like most things in nature as one thing goes another takes its place which in this instance is the daily toing and froing of a modestly sized skien of

GREYLAG GEESE
heading west across the early morning sky to the maize stubble fields beyond, and returning east later in the day, most likely to the sanctuary of the Avon Causway to roost.

Still determined to wring the very last specimen out of the Moth Traps we caught what might also be the last addition to the 2021 List in the shape of the very variable

GEM
the top Insect being the one caught with the other just an examply of variation.

During that process, another Tale of the Unexpected as we noticed a male

BULLFINCH
perched a few yards away and a scarce, to say the least, visitor to the garden.

Far more usual was the continued precense of the small 'charm' of

GOLDFINCH
at the pond side and adding to the
Ocean Colour Scene but there are always those that will only see things in

Black 'n' White

COOT
Seems the

ROBIN
was paying no heed to the advisory notice as the 'combatants' of

none contact sports

pursued their own disciplins!

PHEASANTs
Not seen personnally, it would be considered ethical to include the

RED KITE
which invaded our air-space on the day as reported by the Dorset Bird Club, as flying across our air-space

as the MINSTRALs theme

continued with the escapee, yes still at large,

BELTED GALLOWAYs
still enjoy their new found freedom while finaly 3 'splashes' of colour in quick succession included

a difficult to click

KINGFISHER

at the Gravel Pit,

The autumn leaves drift by my window,
the autumn leaves of red and gold.
I see your lips, the summer kisses,

the sunburned hands I used to hold.

But I miss you most of all my darling when Autumn Leaves start to fall.

Nat King Cole

on the way to the Solar Panel Compound
where were found

c2, yes 2
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

within.
Think that has put a 'bit of colour' in all of our lives!!!!

Seven Wonders - Fleetwood Mac Part VI

 There has been something of a Navigational Error during the production of this part of the series, not unusual for the once Vasco da Gama look-alike, but if not spotted the heart won't grieve! Although we encountered no incidents in El Salvador, knocking on the door of Honduras seemed a slightly less fraught experience as once again Rather Rotund William (a.k.a. Big Fat Billy) came up with the goods as far as the

HOTEL
was concerned but now with only one target in mind, amid punctuations of 'bird-life', which was the largest market place in the whole of Central America, that at

CHICHICASTENANGO

which is said to be, on the arrival of the Spanish Conquistador's, the very spot where

Christianity first met Paganism

Like House Sparrows in UK opportunist
SCARLET MACAWs

Little Children - Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas

RED-BILLED PIGEON

Time to move on as we could not 'mask' the fact that there was still much to see, starting with the

Mandatory Ruins of Copan

with attendant Birdlife

RUFOUS-NAPED WREN

STELLA STONE

GREY HAWK

CENTRAL COLLONADE

SWAINSON'S THRUSH

HEAD HONCHO
The main thrust behind taking the short flight to the

ROATÁN ISLANDS

was the chance of seeing maybe a small part of the second largest
Barrier Reef in the World
but before that there was just the small consideration of safety onboard the aircraft, there wasn't a singe seat belt that would fit around the girth of any of us, but they flew anyway!

The REEF, without images proved spectacular with 2 other encounters well worth a mention as meeting this small group of

YARDIES
who imediately shared their beer with us before getting down to some heavy conversation, a fabulous couple of hours during which time we added

RUFOUS-CAPPED WARBLER

RED-LORED PARROT
and

YELLOW-THROATED EUPHONIA
to the World List.
Deciding to stay the night proved to be a good move as sat on the patio at dusk what was estimated to have been in excess of 1,000

SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHERs

flew into roost in the garden bushes!
SOME PLACE - BUT TIME TO MOVE ON AGAIN!