Little by Little - Dusty Springfield

 The Gardener does not love to talk, he makes me keep the Gravel Walk! 

Robert Louis Stevensen

 But on the other hand local gardener Rich likes a chat nearly as much as he likes that strimmer,

The Bund Alongside my Stately Home
gets its annual cropping in the name of stimulating growth of Wild Flowers while the local

PIED WAGTAILs

were not slow to react to the new wealth of disturbed Insects!
A most welcome start as heading for the Solar Panel Traps and passing the area which has recently been dubbed the

PUDDLE of MUD
simply a 'hard standing' for machinary, turning space for numerous numbers of lorries and more recently

a temporary parking space for Double-Decked buses while their own home was being refurbished

and today a welcome landing area for c2 returning

GREEN SANDPIPER

vocal, flighty and hungry by the look of things.
From the traps, given the continuing dwindling figuers, a welcome quartet of both

RED-LINE QUAKER 

and

YELLOW-LINE QUAKER

DOR BEETLE
along with a

GREAT SILVER

WATER BEETLE
Additionally on the Gravel Pit a male

TEAL
seemingly in moult,

along with a female
and to end our wander a

settled

and flighty

LITTLE EGRET