Lightning Striking Again and Again and Again and Again - Lou Christie

 On the face of it another

Fine Day
despite the frost, but across the southern reaches no need even to take the shoes and socks off to compile the Brid Tally. The dearth continued across all 3 watercourses but joy of joys on reaching the Sewerage Works where c3 'first for the year'

GREENFINCH
were engaged in singing their none to melodic songs. Augmented by no more than a fleeting glimps of the now semi-resident male Merlin, already booked, and also vocal

what might be considered a 'pair' (male) and

GOLDCREST
(female) were also added to the tally.
Strange happenings the moment we entered the Solar Panel Compounf to find this female

PHEASANT

preening while perched atop of the units, a sight only recorded once before across the panels since their construction 5 years ago.

It was also noted how Moss and other debris is taking hold across the panels,

surely reducing production one way or the other and maybe time Mr Tugwell and his team of cleaners paid another visit?
No more than a dozen rows further on another addition to the Year List featured this

SPARROWHAWK

"blink and you'll miss it"

aforded us no more than a few seconds

so maybe clearer views

from the archive.
With the lightning of Good Luck already having struck twice in the same place it was about to continue as we spotted what can only be considered as the local male

PHEASANT
which for months now has always been in company with what maybe the only remaining

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

so we'll make the most of it

while

they last.

Great Value

but not the end of it as up ahead c3

MISTLE THRUSH's

carrying out what could only be described as

low elevation

Display Flights

unfortunately

not consigned to the

CANON