Life Shot in Black and White - Simple Minds

Another Tear to an Ol' Salts Eye 

EURIKA
"we have found it"!!!!

Along with c3 more Common Rustic's and another Dotted Border on a chilly night came

a further first for the year

HEBREW CHARACTER
right on cue, along with a

tiny

EARTHWORM

while the Engineers have made a splendid job of the resurfacing in a single day and with little disruption.
Down south it was immediately noticable that

CHAFFINCH

numbers had increased quite dramatically, maybe doubling to an estimated 200,
but it is said that such guesses are often much larger.

However, add to that a most welcome sprinkling of

LINNETs

absent for about a month now and not even a guess as to numbers.
More joy scanning the neighbouring pastures to find a whole army of

BEE HIVES

had appeared overnight, pity we cannot get a little closer and maybe about time

to give a little space to the

mixed mob of
WOOD PIGEONs and CORVIDs

which have been surviving on the stubble right across the winter and, while the rest of this area is awash with

DAFFODILs
there is but a single stem across the southern reaches.

While everything at the Gravel Pit was in Black and White, prospecting

MAGPIES
the good news might be that the previously lone

COOT

may have found a partner,

perhaps fattening up before the sparring begings

and could be surveying a likely nest site?
All else to hold our attention on the day was the reappearance of c2

MISTLE THRUSH

so elluring

(Panel Cleaners to Muster)

we will give you

the whole jolly lot.

We don't remember seeing their legs

quite so YELLOW before.

Early nesters, let's hope they are a pair!

GRYTVIKEN WHALING STATION SOUTH GEORGIA

where, back in 2007 along with my then ladyfriend Sue,
we were privaliged to pay our own respects to
Earnest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance and certainly agree it is best left where it lies!