Slim Pickens

 Probabley best remembered by us Senior Citizens as Sheriff McKay in the late 1950's TV show Rawhide, alongside a budding Clint Eastwood, just about sums up todays little adventure! A decent start while plucking a

TAWNY PINION

(a First for the Year)
from the Moth Traps but it was a long wait and something of a disaster to locate anything else,

with those laying the new pathways in and around the Solar Panel Compound unwittingly piling the top dressing oacross the puddle often used by Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail et al with the later having found a new

food souce at the

Gravel Pit
and further on just a small showing of what we believe to be the rather eye catching

COMMON GREENSHIELD LICHEN
while the

RED-LEGGED PATRIDGE
(having had enough coverage in recent days)
was found as far west as the main bridleway, something of a 'wild rover'!
All else here amounted to no more than a local

WILLOW
showing signs of breaking into Leaf while a most fortuitous and un-programmed visit to
Chloe and my surrogate nephew Dylan produced the best viewing of the day as a number of

EGYPTIAN GEESE

were both prospecting the bows of the Oak Tree's in their garden
(just to slow to capture that action) but

caught in his and her

WATER-MEADOWs

displaying

and end with one on their last visit to me.