One Man Went to Mow

 We thought it a good idea to leave 'Best until First' just for a change as plucking the delightful, and 'one of the all time favourites',

from the first trap early doors

CLOUDED BUFF
as an addition to the Year List and soon after a 'second' but far less fetching

COMMON RUSTIC
with back-up crew of the

Eye catching

PEACH BLOSSOM
and

DINGY MOCHA
and before reaching the ponds found the

SWALLOWs
in building mode again an activity we are not prepared to pass by!

We should not have been surprised to find a couple of almost newly hatched

MOORHEN
at the Irrigation Pond but just out of shot the Grey Heron

appeared to be patiently waiting?

The last day of

Nettle Mowing

seems not to have been to the liking of the lone juvenile

LAPWING

while hoping for its return and the first signs of the return of

MISTER MOLE
and it was pleasing at the Gravel Pit to find the return of a pristine pair of

GADWALL

female

male
while the

TUFTED DUCKs

pleasured themselves by attacking the
Little Grebes

as the imported

HIMALAYAN BALSAM
comes to life

while the last of the
ELMs
seems to be ending its days??