Funny How Love Can Be - The Rockin' Berries

 

With the temperature having shifted from Zero°C to +10°C over the past 24 hours, you might be forgiven for thinking something new may appear in the Moth Traps - so did we!

Almost the last of the
Waxing Crescent Moon

and from the traps
CHESTNUT

DOUBLE-STRIPED PUG
another

MOTTLED UMBER
and c4

DECEMBER MOTHs
maybe not exactly 'floating your boat' but a boon to us 'ere Unmarried Mother's!

 Also within the Solar Panel Compounds and maybe only a tad more interesting

firstly a single

HERRING GULL
then joined by a second

and then a brave

WOOD PIGEON

Again not a classic
RAINBOW
but the accompanying precipitation being enough to deter us from a visit to the Heath.
A scan across the Moors River, now almost a full Flood Plain, is holding a decent number of various Waterfowl mostly obscured by the surrounding vegetation but not blocking the view of this

seemingly young

ABERDEEN ANGUS

bullock.
Still keen to confirm that the 'chacking calls' of yesterday were infact what was thought

another visit to the Manor Car Park

where we found

just what we had thought

a small host of about a dozen

FIELDFARE

where some were given to  skirmishing the 'fallers' along with a lone

MISTLE THRUSH

with surely more to come - watch this space!
Such sights remind me of my many visits to Estonia where in the parks of the unscathed capital

TALLINN

they breed prolifically

as they also did along with many other spiecies at my former Ladyfriends redundant farm in

 

ILLE

 

THEMZ WUZ the DAYZ!