ROSIE - Don Partridge

 With a somewhat reduced +8°C overnight hopes were high that by morning the Moth Traps would be ‘brimming’ - No Such Luck - NADA! A touch of putting the horse before the cart there as we didn’t even have to swing out of the hammock before encountering our first Wildlife of the day:-

INCY WINCY

in the
Hand Wash Basin

and outside another irresitable
Rosine Morning

 and once again the Southern Sector produce very little except for a

small and grounded

MURMURATION

of

STARLINGS
and distantly "shrouded by fine mist" a

BLOSSOM TREE
which seems to have bloomed overnight?
We have been dragging our heals a little over the

Badger Sett Survey
started at the Late Bronze Age Tumuli

where there are c7 burrows despite being covered by chicken wire

with other evidence such as footprints and

GRUBBING
also running along the edges of all

pathways
and with another 3 sattelite setts as well.

while there has been some excavating at last years very successful site
just outside of the compound, we feel an evening visit coming on!
A most obliging

COMMON BUZZARD

flew in and landed close by while some mention should be made of our
National Bird the

ROBIN

of which there must be 'dozens' scattered across the property!
The quip on Saturday's post, Sod's Law in Reverse, refering to Great Crested Grebe never likely to visit out Patch and hoping it might as having made that statment it still has not but yesterday's obsevations came very close as far as the common

WIGEON

was concerned categorizing it as 'most infrequent' and yesterday in stepped Sod fielding both a

Male (fore) and Female grazing on the banks of the Moors river, trees and bushes preventing even half a decent snap! 

As a finalè and reference to the damage left by the recent 3 named storms, with the assistance of Genesis but more particularly the excellence that is the album

and the track ‘Forth of Fifth'

The path is clear though no eyes can see,

the course laid down long before.

And so with Gods and Men, the sheep remain inside the pen,
though many times they've seen the way to leave.