Down at the Club - The Pioneers

As is our want on a Sunday, despite the chances of  more torretial rain and the blustery wind and with

STORM CLOUDS
gathering and breaking, we first visited the deep south with later intentions of monitoring, for the first time this year, the grounds of Bournemouth International Airport, which given the impending conditions would have to wait until later for a final decission with the main thrust being 2 of the breeding colonies within. Kicking off with our usual daily cicuit there was little to report from the Deep South save for the

predominance of  a decent number of jaunty

GREAT TIT
along with the appearance of this strange contraption, looking rather like a

CANAL BARGE
complete with surfboard which is hardly condusive with such waterways

along with a third this year

PARTY (helium) BALLOON
with all else amounting to no more than singles of

MEADOW PIPIT

and

STONECHAT
unusually in the Southern Solar Panel Compound. With little by way of works traffic we continued directly to BI Airport starting at the potential

ROOKERY

where at least c8 nests

look to be

close to completion at

the site where there were 28 nests last year! Stout structures but yet to be seen if they survive the continuing storms?
Attention then turned to the aircraft hanger rooftops favoured by c3 species of Gulls for procreation

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

not that we are suggesting that they have started yet

despite the 'sitting' / 'incubating' type pose?
There close but 'smaller' cousins the

HERRING GULLs

seemed more intent on 40-winks than nest building, but no signs of Lesser Black-backed Gulls, so round the corner to investigate another

flier
AZMAN AIRLINES

a Kano, Nigeria Based Domestic Airline Company,
and the added bonus of a singing

COAL TIT

before reaching Home Base

and seeing all these lovely youngsters getting into the
Swing of Things at the Golf Club!