Blue Moon - Billie Holiday

 Despite the

FULL MOON
likely detracting the Moths from the Traps we did get a little joy

by adding both

SMOKY WAINSCOT
and

SHEARS
to theYear List but that was about as good as it got!

At the Ponds,

no more than this single

WHITETHROAT
singing its head off in pursuit of a partner.
In sheer frustration we climbed the gate onto the Heath in hopes of more but the vast majority were made up, with just a couple of exception, of the inanimate!

A cluster of

BITING STONECROP
and a second excavation for the benifit of the

SAND LZZARDS
which were absent

flowering

BROOM
with not a single Butterfly in sight, and as for birdlife

nothing more than c5

LINNETs

COMMON BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL

before a second excavation and as something of a 'space-filler' we also 'clicked' the

BOG MYRTLE
with attendant

FOXGLOVE
Clambering back onto home-turf we encountered yet another

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
NO WONDER THE READERSHIP IS DWINDLING!!