Feathering its Own Nest

 Had it not been for the collossal number of errors on Sunday's Post this may very well have been the post relating to Monday - But No!!

Corrected by our Long Time Not Seen friend Steve Smith we are happy, by way of thanks, to promote his own Blog but only if you do not forsake ours!!

http://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.co.uk/

Not unusually, we begin with the traps and a couple of additions to the Year List starting with

STRIPED WAINSCOT

and the usually very tightly closed winged

LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING

and as a matter of interest having only captured c2 this year
LOBSTER MOTH
and only a second

WASP
which will by no means be the last, and also maybe of interest we have only got away from being 'stung' during one year here, and of minor interest the (a) male

TUFTED DUCK
has returned / arrived on the Gravel Pit. While heading for the Heath we came to an abrupt halt when sighting busy

SWALLOWs

gathering nesting material of

Mud and Dead Grasses alike

maybe intent, given the lateness of the hour, on a
Second Generation?
and while viewing one of 2 now daily

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
once again, and for a third time in as many weekends

we caught the full effect of the
Bomb Blast

and a 'lone red arrow'

with a bit of a jerky Coxswain,
maybe heading back to base?

An absolute favourite met me on reaching the heart of the Heath with the
ASPENs
now in full leaf swaying in the breeze. Unfortunately to heavy handed on the camera the video is over-long for the site - we might get them before the leaves fall??
In the opposite direction and seemingly consigned to the pad the

EUROPEAN CARGO'S
haven't moved for month

while at the height of Covid they never seemed to stop then,

enter the

the most welcome herd of

ENGLISH WHITE's

as the HEATHER starts to show its colour.
Not a lot of Birds and no Reptiles or Mammals as

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
put on something of a show while its close cousin

LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER
was in the view-finder for no more than a few seconds.
While there was not a single Dartford Warbler seen and

STONECHAT
remained thin on the ground while

WOODLARK

stole the show

in various stages

of

plumage

and of course pleased not to have missed the
GOATs