A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

 By and large our day was very reminiscent of part of the lyric of the Genesis track Squonk from the album - A Trick of the Tail.

Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle. A tumbling and a bumbling we will go! 

On no more than a whim we decided to do the rounds in what is considered ‘reverse order’

which is to say heading firstly to the south where we found what may be considered as either A, 

PEREGRINE as First for the Year

or 'THE' Peregrine as maybe a returning bird but in ether event always so distant it always has to be verified by the use of the telescope, and as the lyric goes "alive at one end" before "bumbling" into a similarly

First for the Year

JACK SNIPE
in the idealy sodden former Sunflower Field. Mid-Water and there were no returns from the Moth Trap - not even a Dor Beetle and very few Birds. As if by way of compensation the first

CATKINs

Gently Swaying in the Breeze
which may have been an adequate end to
"a little dead in the middle"

but No as disaster struck when meeting 2 young men on the outside of the Solar Panel Compound fenceline and asking what might be their business there considering the sensitivity of the area and were they had found the party gate bulldozed and used as an

'Aftermath' (The Rolling Stones) 

entry point for their burgled buisiness premisses on the distant Industrial Estate close to Bournemouth International Airport to the tune of £60,000, dead in the middle of it as far as the lyrics are concerned.

There were 3 stout padlocks and chains on the gateway to the Heath so from the damage whatever must have been a mighty powerful vehicle to clear that.
Being duty bound to check in with Brighter Green the Solar Panel Parent Company both entering and exiting the compounds there was found to be just one glimmer of hope as one of the security cameras was activated at 20:42 so we now await the outcome?? and to qualify for live at both ends the first

BLACKCAP
of the year (a male)

plus a GREY WAGTAIL already seen a couple of times this year.