I Could 'Weasely' Fall in Love with You - Cliff Richard

 It was messrs O'Sullivan and Trump who were responsible for me forgetting to move one of the home-bound traps to its usual overnight site next to the paling fence, but........

plucking an
OCHREOUS PUG

from that trap followed by this rather spectacular

PUSS MOTH

from the trap squating on the bund, the pair of Snooker Giants were let off with a verbal warning.
It was pure Frustration rather than Fieldcraft that sent us scurring to the far western end of our beat of the River Stour in hopes of a feathered friend that should have reached the log by now.

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CETTI'S WARBLER
at least

all issuing those unmistakable bursts of song at frequent intervals,
while shortly afterwards clocking a couple of

STOCK DOVE
not often seen at this end of the property but numerous elsewhere, along with a

brace of

PHEASANT's
already into some serious canoodling.

Around parts of the Main Pond what we have only ever known as

NICOTINA,
rightly or wrongly, we feel sure someone will let us know,

blooming in both White and

Purple
and where the

MUTE SWANs
still show no sighs of producing!
Nothing to add to the Year List across the Solar Panel Compound Moth traps but beneath our single cover there

a quite unexpected

FIELD VOLE or SHORT-TAILED VOLE
if you wish.

We do know this is a species of

TOADFLAX
as having consulted John and while watching the

LAMB's WEANING
considered this

JACKDAW
photogenic enough for at least one click, as a rather overlooked Bird we think!
In the fields beyond the Moors River, but more particularly in the trees an

EGYPTIAN GOOSE

and with another at ground level it bodes well that successful breeding should follow as is usual
and to end, we considered the above mammal a bonus

which faded somewhat when catching sight of this

WEASEL