Horse With No Name - America

 Having drawn a 'blank' at the Moth Traps it was

MIST
  decided, for no particular reason, to conduct our rounds in reverse order to the usual with just some of the hundreds of

STARLINGs

clinging to the overhead cables and the / a

LITTLE OWL
(unseen or heard for a while now) at a favoured perch but nothing to reort from the equally grey

Stubble Fields.
Back-tracking coincided perfectly with the latest

Equestrian Event

with the extrodinary tallents of these

YOUNG LADIES,

surely only in their early teens, shining through!
In our little world a Gull is a Gull,

so regaurdless this

HERRING GULL
at the main pond

was fare game before heading further north where at the
Eco Recycling Works
was something of a surprise as this delightful and once resident

FERAL PIGEON,
not seen throughout 2021 thus far,

had returned to base, wonder is "how long will it stay"?

Maybe unfortunately for the reader, and certainly for us, there was little change at the
Irrigation Pond save for the addition of a couple of

CANADA GEESE

among the now semi-resident Mute Swans, Mallards and male

TUFTED DUCK
During the colder months we only visit the Heath on one day a week, although we can get an idea of activity by viewing from the farm, with our rounds, under much improved conditions, producing only the expected but valued

DARTFORD WARBLER

(singular)

similarly

STONECHAT

but a winter record count of no fewer than 15

WOODLARK
would be nice to have them stay!