Good Times - The Animals (1967)

 Given the relentless bad weather of the early week we were very much confined to barracks but on our next outing we firstly took a look at the swollen

 RIVER STOUR

followed by an event we could well have done without. A dog with no restraint and seemingly no attendant owner (a full search being made of the bridleway both ways) was chasing a

young

FOX

with bad intent until disuaded. 

Something of a barrier to contend with entering the Solar Panel Compound

as the path was blocked by the same escapee

CATTLE
and still no signs of the herdsman.
We found no Moths within the Traps but adding both

MEADOW PIPIT

and

STOCK DOVE
to the Year List spurred us on further

where also found were a number of

GREY SQUIRRELs

and
RABBITs

both preforming for the camera, while at the Sewerage Works this smart

GREY WAGTAIL
came to us rather than we trying to gain position on it!
A purposeful visit on our return to within Bournemouth International Airport had the desired effect of a Tick Worthy

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
while at the same location we found the

ROOKs,
early nesters, had already taken to the

BEECH TREEs
with these 2 images, only a small part of the wood, supporting 40 odd? individuals already.

CORMORANT
on the main pond was the final addition to the Year List for the day, but not the final entry.
To hear news of another, or maybe the same, lone

WALRUS
now residing on the coast-lines of

NORTHUMBERLAND

brought back extremely fond memories of the one Dave and I twitched at

Tenby in Wales back in 2021.