Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Dreamer - Ozzy Osbourne

At the upcoming General Election there are only 4 options in my 
Little World, place your X where you think it might do the most good!
Ozzy Osbourne
Tony Iommi
Geezer Butler
or
Bill Ward
Gazing through the window at the world outside
Wondering will mother earth survive
Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime

 I watch the sun go down like everyone of us
I'm hoping that the dawn will bring a sign
A better place for those Who will come after us ...
This time

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away oh yeah
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
The only addition to the Moth Year List
SATELLITE
accompanied by the
SPIDER
PISAURA MIABLIS
WOODWORM BEETLE
and a few
WOODLICE
Oniscus asellus
found under a building brick.
 There was also an unidentified LARVAE likely of a Micro Moth
 plus a few shrivelled eggs a left over from last season.
With Red Kites seemingly still in the locale it was decided to wander
just a little further afield, not too far as I only have a small ball of string,
first stop being
COWARDS MARSH
where all of note were a couple of
SHELDUCK
so onward to
Nothing out of the ordinary there but a nice day to walk the perimeter.

BRENT GEESE
images from a previous visit which didn't make the cut.
While at the confluence of the River Stour and Hampshire Avon
a few
WIGEON
were found.
LITTLE EGRET
along with a small flock of
FIELDFARE
Then just some time checking out the various views.
Grazing Horses
CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY
The old US LIFEBOAT
featured in these pages before and then back to business.
Very obliging
BULLFINCH
and likewise
REED BUNTING
I'm With You Ozzy 
LINK to DREAMER
 Back just in time for another 'LIFER'
 Thomson Holiday's (it is believed) New
 BOEING 787-8 (788)
 DREAMLINER
doing a pirouette right before our eyes.
Your higher power may be God or Jesus Christ
It doesn't really matter much to me
Without each others help there ain't no hope for us
I'm living in a dream of fantasy
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

If only we could all just find serenity
It would be nice if we could live as one
When will all this anger, hate and bigotry ...
Be gone?

I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
Today
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Okay
I'm just a dreamer
Who's searching for the way
Today
I'm just a dreamer
Dreaming my life away
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

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Saturday, 21 March 2015

Moon - Bjork

With Friday's partial eclipse of the Sun turning into a 'non-starter', it's a good job there have been other Heavenly Bodies to keep our eye on. But enough about me, we have on recent evenings been watching Jupiter, when it cuts across a clear sky, but more correctly a closer look at its 4 largest, 'Galilean', Moons. Io, Europa,Ganymede and Callisto, which derive their names from the Lovers of Zeus, are quite readily discernible with the aid of an average 'bird watching' telescope, but not the other confirmed 63 lesser Moons.
It might have had something to do with
When the moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
that it was decided to go 'off piste' again  for a couple of hours yesteday.
Firstly, the Moth Traps are now catching slightly higher numbers of Insects,
but mostley of the species we have been catching before, but
 
MARCH MOTH
c4 in fact was the exception to that rule.
At what used to be the Hurn Gravel Pit all that could be seen was this lone
ROE DEER
while at the Avon Causeway there was a little more to be seen
starting with this huge, but unfortunately dead
PIKE
(stupid boy)
A decent gathering of
BLACK-HEADED GULLs
and in there midst
MEDITERRANEAN GULLs
I make it c3?
all else were a few
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT
but I was starting to get decompression sickness so decided to beat
a hasty retreat back to Parley Court Farm.
BIRCH CANKER
which had escaped my gaze before and the
HAZEL CATKINS
are now in full bloom.
BROWN-LIPPED SNAIL
shells made for a colourful image
but unfortunately they too had seen better days.
As ever at Merritown Heath the c4 Galloway Cattle were conspicuous,
but it seems one has managed to adorn its front left hoof with a
BANGLE
Looks like a seal or insert from a large hose pipe but who knows.
Another
HARE
put in a brief appearance, but not as confiding as the last one we featured.
'EASY'
like Sunday Morning - Lionel Richie.
An area not frequently visited and almost untouched is the
woodland at
NORTH DEAN DITCH
the stronghold of TEAL on the property but only a
SONG THRUSH
there today.
Work continues apace on what used to be the
Main Offices of Dampney Ltd
and a redundant
MAGPIE NEST
Looks like another
PHEASANT
bites the dust guess Raynard is on the trail.
Gravel Extraction
is almost completed at the
Irrigation Pond
so back-filling should be underway soon?
RHODODENDRON
at the Fishing Lakes seem to be close to blooming
while I for one am eagerly awaiting the first round of
Bat Detection.
We can also report that the Heath Clearance at Merritown is also
now completed and already looks better for the works.
and finally a few
CROCUSES
in Harbins Garden
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                    6 - back again after a too long absence. Many, Many lovely memories of my 5 visits to this fabulous, not to be missed country. "buenos días"