STILL - Ken Dodd

 A rather pleasing but unexpected suprise kicked the day off with a transit by the

COAST GUARD HELICOPTER

which, for what ever reason, we believed had been abandoned but, without 'foot in mouth'

hopefully has not!

With overnight temperatures still hanging on doggedly to ‘Three Degrees’ we have, for now at least, given up on the Moths. However, that raises the question,

“when will I see you again”?

During more needed reperation works to the road surface down south we gave the area a miss heading instead to the Irrigation Pond where all that could be seen or heard were a brace of

CANADA GEESE

with backing vocals, if you listen carefully, provided by the now established
Little Grebes
but no signs of nest building yet from either departmant. Next door the still 'single'

COOT

appeared to be collecting dead reed but will need more observations to quantify it.
Otherwise we were very much relying on what the Moors River might throw up given the 'water-plain' is back after the moderately heavy rain, looking like the semi-residents were already

making their way back, c8 more Canada Geese joining what was a host of

BLACK-HEADED GULL

undoubtedly capitalising on a wealth of

Drowning Invertibrates
and watched over by the seemingly ever present

CORMORANT
in a cross-section of plumages.

A welcome diversion was provided by this male

BLACKCAP
only the second sighting of the year before ending the wait to capture at least one decent click of the 'scarce' and now semi-resident pair of

WIGEON

As a finalè the local and seemingly now only

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
was again found bolt upright and not moving a muscle

during a 15 minute observation on the track outside of the
Solar Panel Compound.