Poet and Pheasant - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers

 There seemed little point embarking on the new day until full daylight which neatly coincided with this

New Kid on the Block
cutting across the clear blue sky an

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of Qinetic Castle Air based at Boscombe Down (thanks John) and as has become usual starting in the Southern Quarter the first wildlife to be encountered, unless you include the single Fieldfare still munching away at the berries on the Ornimentals, was an extrodinarily large

Herd of Deer

c8 in all and all unsurprisingly

ROE

feeding voraciously.
Along the Oak Line with the Moors river this

COMMON BUZZARD

was a totally unwelcome guest as far as the local

CARRION CROWs
were concerned and soon given the elbow

with preening continuing.
Within the Solar Panel Compound a moment of

Déjà Vu
as like in previous days the female

PHEASANT

had returned to what appears to be a

Favoured Perch
while what had been an ordiary sort of day was about to close with something of a
BANG

as a small flock of First for the Year

SISKINs
were located feeding in the tree-tops at the
Sewerage Works

and most unusually (ditto f.f.y.) this

JAY

was also found feeding on the verges of the busy lane leading to the Eco Recycle Centre.