Water, Water, Everywhere

 With overnight temperature now hovering around the +12° mark hopes of a decent catch from the Moth Traps have been high, and we have not been disappointed with first to show being the much hoped for

WATER CARPET

and followed in quick succession by

the odd looking

BUFF-TIP
and then the far more dainty

MAIDEN'S BLUSH
We have now taken to visiting the stables first thing each morning and to find

among the tack this nest of 2 juvenile

ROBINs

being well fed by the parent birds.
At the Main Pond the

MUTE SWANs
are still 'sitting' while us shore-siders are getting increasingly impatient
while yet another

Ornimental Goose

is constructing a nest which again usually come to naught.
The pathway leading to the Gravel Pit is now being occupied by a pair of

STONECHAT

which have shown no signs of a breeding attempt, but are surely considering such

while the update on the Humbugs remains posative with one of the parent birds knocking 'ten bells' out of some hapless invertibrate

keeping all 3 youngsters well fed.
While still at pond-side a single

SAND MARTIN,

our first of the year,

started hawking insects directly above

and while we have had discussions with the management there seems to be little sign of trying to attract them back, as these historic images show, to breeding at the Eco site!!
We maintain, everyone is a Conservationist until asked to do the simplest of things!!!!