Garden - Groundhogs

 With a few outstanding domestics to attend to in our charabanc home it was thought that in combination a day in the garden might prove profitable? Not a great start as all the colour had been taken out of what f.f.y. Moths there were but as we know, they all count towards the annual total.

POPLAR GREY

a not dissimilar

FROSTED GREEN
and to keep up the trend

BROWN RUSTIC
and for no other reason than to add a little colour one of 2

CREAM-SPOT TIGER's
While my only achievement at school (that proves a good memory) was the School Leavers Certificate in Gardening, we are not even going to pretend we have any idea as to the name of the

following botanicals

My garden is all overgrown, and the weeds are creepin' up on my home.

 Grass has grown over two foot high, and the trees are blockin' out the sky.

they sure look in good shape.

 French windows won't open anymore, from the moss that's grown outside the door.

 A hundred birds are nestin' in the trees, looks like a wildlife sanctuary!

As ever at this time of year no shortage of

ROOKs

with more nests, and hopefully by definition, more youg that we have ener recorded here before,
difficult to say but maybe as many as 50 nests??

Another Fine Specimen

 But I'm not gonna cut a single blade of grass,

 my garden will look just like the distant past.

and after a number of attempts we finally managed to capture the extrodinary livery of this

Unidentified Aircraft
with seemingly no identification letters or numbers?
No need for Moth Traps mid-afternoon as this f.f.y.

YELLOW SHELL
landed right before us, netted and committedto the Canon followed by a number of unidentified

Before the days of agricultural land,

before the time when pebbles turned to sand.

DAMSELFLY's
all in a teneral state, that is to say recently emerged and not showing their true colouration yet.

Another beautiful bush without referance as to

 SPECIES

When I leave this house I'm gonna stay,

 

I'm forsakin' my comforts to live another way.

 but that is when we took up station within the homestead to watch the antics

of our local

HOUSE SPARROWs

feeding their young with Damselflies in full

To get my clothes from heaps, my food from bins.

My water from ponds and have tramps for my friends.

colour, maybe not fond of those that are not 'fully ripe'?

MALE

JUVENILE

having just been fed

but hoping for more.

While not even on our radar we appreciate a
Beautiful Beast
when we see one, the property of one of the Builders.

Very fortunate to have enjoyed a pint or 3 occassionally with Founder, Vocalist and Lead Guitarist Tony (T.S.) McPhee (the T. S. part standing for Top Strat, as in Stratocaster Guitar, 'no arguement there'), Peter Cruickshank - Bass and Ken Pustienik drums mainly in Finn's Blues Pub - Weymouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdI2aRDEBZ4

 from the album