Four ducks on a pond, a grass bank beyond.
The blue sky of Spring, white clouds on the wing.
What a little thing, to remember with tears, to remember for years!
Across the board and in the name of co-ordination all Moth records submitted to the County Recorder are dated from the evening when traps are flashed up, meaning that last night’s poor effort, had there been any Insects at all, would have been submitted / posted as the last day of January. By definition then, had we ‘caught’ last night then the result would have been posted tomorrow. Clear as mud when you are such a wordsmith! However, despite the half-dozen tiny Flies and a Money Spider the day took off in fine fashion with the finding of the first
Little by way of change down the southern reaches where again we watch small clusters of Redwing, Fieldfare and mixed Finches, but what did come as something of a surprise were a brace of in-flight
by no meas a regular sight in the area, which most obligingly landed in the neighbours field.
Apart from another 'flier' the 07:50
our course was set for more northerly climes and more particularly the Irrigation Pond which on the day was singularly the only site of any action.
Magic Moment of the Day, while videoing this Coot we thought we had caught the 'song' of a Little Grebe but all fell quiet very quickly - OK when you can just hear it on this vid! Continuing to capture
Additionally, both the
Determined to get a little more vocals footage we sat it out to first of all achieve
(we are presuming they are of last years breeding stock?)
Full Voice and hope to bring you Breeding next.
