Send Down a Dove - Charles McHardy

Not at all common in the garden, we don't recall ever having heard

COLLARED DOVE
as part of the dawn chorus from home base

but c2 of them were certainly at it early yesterday morning.
Oh lord above Send Down a Dove, with wings as sharp as razors.

To cut the throats of them there blokes as sells Bad Beer to Sailors!

It is unlikely that you will ever read a book quite like this about us here Submariners!

With no returnes from the Moth Trap and the Party Gate smashed off its hinges it was a no brainer to spend an hour or two on the

HEATH
where for the time invested returns were rather small but did include

what were considered to be a 'pair'

(male)

and female
STONECHAT

while from under the 16 reptile covers a most welcome

SHORT-TAILED VOLE

and a short visitation by the local

ROCKWELL COMMANDER
and while exiting the down-fallen party gate

maybe as many as half a dozen

SISKIN
an addition to the Year List and while the game ain't over til the
Fat Lady Sings

A Tale of the Unexpected with no idea of what model?

while finally a contribution from Bomber in Weymouth with his First of the Year
COLTSFOOT