Take a Look - Level 42 (Part III)

 To complete our trilogy of the visit to the Somerset Levels it was decided that the last few hours of daylight should be turned over to a dedicated search for the seemingly elusive

COMMON CRANEs

Starting at this vantage point above a rather nifty
Farmstead

where, if you look really closely you will see c2 Cranes to the distant right and a single to the left? Not exactly satisfactory, after clocking both

BULLFINCH
and

NUTHATCH
we wandered back to the bridge featured in the previous post

and where his

DAVESHIP
'who else'?

picked out c3 targets of our desire

crossing an increasingly cloudy sky.

A brief intermission to enjoy another couple of most welcome

and beautifully liveried

TRAINs

Into the distance, a ribbon of black,
stretched to the point of no turning back.

 

 A flight of fancy on a windswept field,
standing alone my senses reeled.
Fatal attraction is holding me fast,
how can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky,
tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I.

which drew our attentions to a much larger pod

of no fewer than

48 individuals

recalling the adage
"all things come to those who wait!"

Leaving our vantage point the track back home took us through the small town of

Langport, Somerset
stimulating memories of our annual visits there in days gone by to add

CIRL BUNTING
to our Year Lists the species being extinct in our home county of Dorset.
Not to put the hex on it, we are doing very well as far as visitations are concerned, but 'More would make the Merrier! Please pass the link on to your friends - Thank You One and All!