Mister Blue Sky - E.L.O.

 It looked plainly obvious from the

Rosy Glow
that the

O'l Current Bun
was up there, and getting brighter by the minute, but were we going to get even a small 'kiss from it?

Seems not, as this was the picture just 15 minutes later, and seeing little more of it for the rest of the day. So much for the Solstice!
However, this didn't seem to deter yet another

DECEMBER MOTH
and accompanying

MOTTLED UMBER
along with a back-up cast of

GREEN LACEWING

an assorted group of SLUGS with a tiny SNAIL

and a lone
CADDISFLY
At what might have been considered DAYLIGHT both

 female

KESTREL

and male

were plying from perch to tennis court in persuit of an

Early Breakfast
preferably of plump Earthworm, "who could ask for anything more" as the song goes!

Also down south there appeared to have been another arrival of

CHAFFINCH
(this a male)

with a young and seemingly unperturbed, by our prescence,
MOORHEN

at the garden pond.

All else and confined to the Gravel Pit up north

2 pairs of

rather serene looking

and new arrival

GADWALL
with the first

CORMORANT
of the Winter on this particular watercourse.