Once the Urge Takes Them!

 It would seem that if you want to start the day with a BANG all you need do is stand on the doorstep

and listen to the refrain of a likely newly arrived

SEDGE WARBLER

then add it to the list of
Firsts for the Year
before continuing in the same vein adding a few Moths

such as

MARBLED MINOR

GREEN PUG

WHITE ERMINE

and for today at least

SCALLOPED HOOK-TIP
while afterwards at the small subsuduary pond

we stopped to admire the

YELLOW WATER IRIS
the only specimen now left here,

while along the same track what we can only describe as a

POM-POM TREE
not knowing the proper name despite holding the
School Leaves Certificate in Gardening
(which came in very handy during a lifetime at sea!)
There were more arborials but not before checking the

GREAT TIT NEST BOX
where we saw them all in

and then saw them all out!
Next a branch full of yougsters we hope.

Another sight and sound not to be missed was this vocal

GOLDFINCH

and then a

ROWAN

in full bloom, before heading north and finding a newly arrived

but strangely

a lone young

COOT
and to redress the balance at the

Gravel Pit

this seemingly lone
MOORHEN
nest building.