Spider and I - Brian Eno (ex Roxy Music)

 Nothing to do with anxiety (oh my nose has just grown 2 inches) anything above +6°C is worthy of flashing up the 2 homeward Moth Traps as was the case on the night. Unfortunately, the Insects had other ideas with the traps remaining bare while this close by

SPIDER

performed for us at daybreak but there was a tentative plan after videoing this unidentified stranger.

With the fog having scotched our plans of capturing some of the 100+ each of Redwing and Fieldfare on film yesterday conditions today were

PERFECT
but the Northern Thrushes absent - Sod's Law! with attention being switched to the

small pods of

STARLINGs
Up north and amoung the dozens of cars associated with both Eco Recycling and the Fencing Centre

was what was considered to be the

Find of the Day

COLLARED DOVE

already gathering nesting material. Not altogether a freak of nature as we are given to understand that they can, and do, nest across every month of the year?
At the 2 Ponds it was business as usual as the female

SHOVELERs

continue to

predominate
and even more joy at the

SEWERAGE WORKS
where improvements continue to the songs of

more than a

dozen

CHIFFCHAFF

while along the dence south-facing hedge row at first a female

followed by a partly vocal male First for the Year
BLACKCAP
while at least one of the overwintering

STONECHAT

holds on to its territory at the

most northern reaches of the
Solar Panel Compounds