Through the Trees - The Hansome Family

 The first vestiges of what might be considered a Dawn Chorus met our ears as we swung out of the Hammock, provided in turn by c2

ROBINs
and a backing track from one of the local and most raucous

KESTREL
No signs of life within the now single Moth Trap, and not even any rain water, but looking along the line of security cameras

we found the return of the first

RAVEN
of the year at a favoured perch but with nothing else to delay us, not even the Red-legges Partridge we left to investigate the cacophony of a Waterfowl Chorus coming from what was previously the Moors River which has now become an even wider spread Flood Plain. First to show through the dense barrier of trees something of a rare visitor to our 'patch' a male

GOOSANDER
not only a first for the year, but the first for a very long time!

The 'honking' came long before we clapped eyes on a decent number of

GREYLAG GEESE
which some readers may remember as the 'first species of the year' while the full beat of the watercourse is difficult enough to survey

through the trees with a number of the

SILVER BIRCHES
now adorned by deformed growths known as

WITCHES BROOMSTICKs

Finally, we decided that it might be 3rd time lucky if we made another seach of  Bounemouth International Airport Buisiness Park where stands the offices / workshops of

HONEYWELL
which bring back memorise as being the providers of the Station Keeping Equipment on all 3 of the Floating Semi-Submecible Oil Rigs on which we served. Also within was the object of our desire and yet another addition to the Year List

a couple of grounded (usually on the rooftops)

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLs