A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

After a none to shoddy start to the year we break into February with high hopes particularly as the forecasters tell of 'Double Figures' again tonight!

 I tell the

TALE
of a jealous male and a maid of sweet sixteen.
She was blonde and dumb and she lived with her mum,
on the fringe of Bethnal Green.
She worked all week for a rich old Greek for her dad was on the dole.
And her one delight was a Friday night
when she had a little rock and roll.
To my rit-fall-dall to my ritty-fall dall,
to my itty-bitty-fall-dall-day.

CLOUDS at DAWN

and whether jet black or fluffy white we just love 'em, what a way to start any day and you should just be able to see them moving on the vid.
Down south the Birds were all but absent save for a noticable influx of

BLUE TIT

and

GREAT TIT

alike, all over the place and if you want the very best chance of spotting a

PEREGRINE
around here then the National Grid is the best place but So Far, So Bad - Nada!
Up north altogether a different matter as we considered if the

COMMON SANDPIPER

on the same acreage was the returning bird reported from 07/12/2021

my money would say it is

but truth is "we'll never know" but does it matter when again we add

yet another species to the

2022 List.
Additionally, at the same location we found more

GREAT TIT

at least half a dozen over a wider area

along with a couple of

particularly eye catching

GREY WAGTAIL
while at the Irrigation Pond things remain bare while the Gravel Pit still supports all
5 female? Shoveler

along with males of

TEAL
and

GADWALL
as everything along the course of the Moors River came in combinations of c4

CANADA GEESE

CORMORANTs

EGYPTIAN GEESE

but only a single

 GREY HERON 

and end with a
Trick of the Tail

Then one fine day in the month of May she found her big romance.
He was dark and sleek with a scar on his cheek
and a pair of drainpipe pants.
And she thought, "With you, I could be so true
through all the years to come."

For she loved the gay abandoned way he chewed his chewing gum!

Paddy Roberts - 1959