Edith Piaf - The Little Sparrow

 It would be safe to say that most of the days action took place in the southern half of the Recording Area, but not quite all! c2 new species of Moth added to the Year List, by way of,

PALE TUSSOCK

and an

Equally Fine Specimen of

DOG'S TOOTH
while the local

PIED WAGTAIL
(bill full of victuals)

is once again nesting and feeding young

at the traditional nest site behind the farmhouse
Solar Panels.

Next, and far more worrying, it was found that neither

MUTE SWAN
appeared to be incubating (but had certainly added some more 'stout' material to the nest)
so took the opertunity to visit the Island, known as

but on the way found no few than

c4

Mute Swan

egg shells

strewn across the area while our observation of the nest

showed what looked like just

c2 of the previous count of 7

eggs within?

Next was to catch up on the

MALLARD DUCKLINGs
which seemed ship-shape and Bristol fashion, but next something most unexpected.

Absent, or more likely Hiding for a number of days now there, 'running' across the paddock was our ol' mate the male

MANDARIN

(Welcome Back)

While all from up North

came c2 half decent 'stills'

along with a

quarter of a dozen rather poor

videos and finally another most heartening shot, doing the rounds, of unfledged

TREE SPARROWs
from the Somerset Project which amounts to 'hundreds'.
By comparison we have recorded but a 'single' in our close to 10 years at this site and thought to be extinct as a breeding species across our home county, Dorset?