Davy's on the Road Again - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

To continue and finalise the bizzare, for now at least, again from his Daveship  over there in Weymouth, who informs us of this

Woodcock display showing the underside of it's tail feathers, revealing the black with large white tips. The white tips reflect 55% of the light that hits them, which is the most of any bird's feather known to date.
As the Sun came up so the Power, without warning, went Down as

2 teams of Electrical Fitter arrived to replace all wires, boxes and poles plunging us into darkness and cold until 16:00 with a cursory wander across our own patch to the tune of an estimated

300 - 400

FIELDFARE
before once again graduating towards

LONGHAM LAKES
where there was an unimaginable complete absence of bird-life on the south side of the

Main Island,
never witness before, and a thin veneer of ice across both watercourses.
First up a

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
and looking across the

Hampreston Water Meadows finding a

GREAT WHITE EGRET
at times in company with a

LITTLE EGRET
followed by a couple of

MUTE SWANs
flying at zero feet directly towards me, while other 'commoners' included

TEAL

COMMON

GULL

A FLOATING DISC of ICE

TUFTED DUCKs
and a less common

KINGFISHER
flying in and pearching directly in front of me.
Having covered nearly all of the figure of 8 x 2 islands walk we took to scanning the back edge of the

MAIN ISLAND
only to locate at great distance, as can be seen, (close to the tiny yellow spot right of centre), the

AVOCET

(from the archive for clarity)

mostly stationary with head under wing.

We simply cannot resist the mighty
OAK
on the way out now showing something of a list to port.