The Only Way is Up - Yazz and the Plastic Population

 Absent for a number of days now we thought we might have seen the last of the Northern Thrushes, but maybe not so the Starlings just yet!

Commuting from Tree to Turf

the least numerous of the trio

FIELDFARE

were certainly 'bunkering' (a naval expression for taking on fuel)

between the vocals.
Far more numerous,

maybe in the regeon of 2 to 300 the

STARLINGs

were certainly keeping up with the others even though they may not have

quite the distance to go?

Lastly and holding the middle-ground as far as numbers go the

REDWING
were employing thier tried and tested tactic of fistly 'Looking' as above,

Listening
and then

Striking
when the time was right.
With seemingly little else to keep us in the southern reaches we made to go, but quickly with
Anchor's Away,
we stopped to make the most of a
WORLD 'LIFER'....

Occassionally seen on Channel 4 News, along with attendant moans, it was refreshing to think back to how GOOD we all were during our generation of childhood - Yeah, Alright!
Arriving at the Ponds up north it was as though someone had switched the lights off as as across both watercourse the c8 species of Waterfowl had reduced to just c2 the

LITTLE GREBE
and

COOT
but in the knowledge that "the only way is up"!
Lastly, at least until tomorrow a bit of a barrier as the track to the northern paddocks is now

Blocked by This
cum-on, which one of you is guilty??