Messin' With the Kid - Rory Gallagher

 Historically, on his first arrival in Great Britain, Jimi Hendrix (my all time hero) was asked by the interviewer "what does it fell like to be the greatest guitrist in the world"? He simply replied, best go ask Rory Gallagher - both legends but know where my money lies by a whisker.

We have awakend to a number of Dawn Choruses over our years of being in love with nature but none quite as bizzare as that of yesterday morning just before daylight. We could hear the very gentle 'weezing' from within and felt sure as to ID of the species but we did swing out of the hammock just to be sure. In the tree directly next to our Stately Caravan

(this tree right and in this gloom)
none other than only the third ever

YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER
here in 10 years with the first having been logged as long ago as 2012 and the other in the following year, with no chance of an image, that having been taken at the Portland Bird Observatory some years ago, has to surfice while providing the descant was this

KINGFISHER
still perched on the fence surrounding the garden pond at daylight.

+12C on the clock was also promising but with only c3 captives collected with a single from each trap

ANGLE SHADES

DECEMBER MOTH
and

YELLOW-LINE QUAKER
Not so lucky with the Insects was short lived as we considered our good fortune of being forced to drive on the Gravel Tracks rather the the now grassy quagmire as if not we never would have made contact with the single

WHEATEAR
on the hard standing. All to nice to go anywhere else other than the

HEATH

where unlike our last visit, when they were in hiding, all c6 the GOATs were in attendance.
No more than a few more hundred yards the air was filled

with the songs of

a decent number of

WOODLARK

Out on the wily, windy Moors

we roll and fall in green! - Kate!
First signs of Fungi came in the form of

FALSE CHANTERELLE

before searching one of the
WOODLAND RIDES
and drawing a blank followed by a wander into the

Wood itself raising memories of when this was our

MOTHING STATION
gone are the days through inept management??

HAIRY EARTHTONGUE
and

STINKHORN
were of no surprise as was the presence of a

TREECREEPER

this being a

Favoured Site
while in that prosess we flushed c2

WOODCOCK
highlighted by this line drawing as never having been so lucky to photograph one.

ORANGE BOLLETE
and

CEP or PENNY BUN
was found before heading off to turn the Reptile Covers but found the Guardian in the way,

we ain't messing with this kid

OLD ENGLISH WHITE BULL
(seemingly friendly or not leaving the 2 nearby covers for another day)
Hopes in that direction were not high either but you never can tell as we did find a single

SMOOTH SNAKE
under one cover before taking a quick look at the still redundant

EUROPEAN CARGO CARRIERS

Our personal tributes to them both

James Marshall Hendrix

Greenwood Cemetary, Renton, Seattle, Washington U.S.A.

Rory Gallager

Southern Ireland