Autumn Leaves - Eric Clapton

 A wander around the

Main Pond 

including the

nifty little

over-spill, not exactly 

IGUAZU

kicked off a days which was never likely to be bountiful
but pleasing enough to my eye at least! Further up the lane the ditches were found to be choked by

PARROT's FEATHER
where across each year the pond is usually awash with this choking weed but not a sign of it there this year?? Further to that we found the

EMU
  striking something of a pose with a new

MONUMENT

in the next paddock further along the lane.

Again despite the chill the Moth Traps produced repeats of

CYPRESS CARPET
and

SCARCE UMBER
a single

EGYPTIAN GOOSE

on the Gravel Pit was a welcome find but that was it as all the
Waterfowl of recent days seem to have made for the exit!

A couple of

DUNNOCK
and a few

CHIFFCHAFF

feeding at the Sewerage Works hedge made for a little padding, as the calls of an overflying

CURLEW
(not this one of course)
brought back a memory of

this 'self found' leucistic individual at
Church Norton, Hampshire
all those years ago. On our reture a loan

COLLARED DOVE
at the Fencing Centre and as a finalè maybe the last vesiges of

Autumn Leaves - (originally by) French vocalist Cora Vaucaire

The falling leaves drift by my window,

the autumn leaves of red and gold.

 I see your lips, those summer kisses,

the sunburned hands I used to hold.