Gold - Duran Duran

 About the Best we could do at early light with the first

JUVENILE ROBIN
of the year but another small gathering of First for the Year Moths, but by comparison not quite so attractive as those in recent days.

By no means annual here

GOLD SWIFT

LESSER YELLOW UNDERWING
always more attractive when open winged but always reluctant.

KENT BLACK ARCHES

SMALL DOTTED BUFF

and

SALLOW KITTEN
Bringing up the also-rans we spent a bit of time among the local

HOUSE SPARROWs

which seem

not to have done half as well

(male with juvenile)
as in previous years but

at least they have procreated!
At Pond-Side the

CANADA GEESE
are looking more like Mum and Dad every day while it seems the Mute Swan family have dispursed to a new but unknown location.

To continue the juvenile theme

on the Gravel Pit we found a single young

MOORHEN

strangely gaping, but joy of joys next door on the almost impossible to view

Irrigation Pond

a well developed juvenile

LITTLE GREBE

being fed by

by a seemingly lone parent bird?

Adult Briefly

and

Quiet a find but nothing like previous years when 3 or 4 pairs have bred with double broods!

They Only Come Out at Night - Peter Brown

 The continuing spells of anything from light to heavy rain have not detered us from our ventures in fact in one instance gave some direction as to what should be tackled next, but firstly the Moth Traps.

A decent and welcome candidate is always the

WHITE SATIN
but on this occassion immediately outflanked by both

SCARCE SILVER-LINES

with the 'brace' on this image either side of another beauty
GREEN SILVER-LINES
and to round off the Moths for today a

BEAUTIFUL BROCADE
Apart from flashing up the traps at dusk we take to watching the
Denizens of the Night such as Woodcock, Nightjars and of course Owls. of the middle contenders we usually just sit in the Mobile Bird Hide and watch for where they land and in the hope of viewing a nest but ALWAYS at a safe distance, not to disturb. Last year it was

 Dave Foot 

who found a nest while prior to that and the restrictions it was 2 of my now absent c3 apprentices

Josh 8 and Sophie 5 then

who immersed themselves in the study of Moths as well.
So far no luck in 2021 but we are able to bring to you the success stories of those yeas before.

NIGHTJAR

and then just a

random sequence of shots

and videos across those years.

Last Year's so Different Eggs.

Don't Move Much Do They!

MADAGASCAR - Part III

 After all that Bunny-ing,

this one has been there for a week now with no signs of Reynard,

about Butterflies (Wendy Craig) and Mister Blue Skies (ELO) yesterday, it was certain that we had drawn our Revolver (The Beatles) and loosed a Bullitt (Steve McQueen) into My Left Foot (Daniel Day Lewis), it hasn’t stopped raining since!

Confined to barracks for most of the day it just fell lucky that today is Sunday and time for a return to Madagascar. 

As we ended Part II of our journey with an Owl so we kick this one off with

BARRED OWL

and soon time to take in another sun rise before hitting the trail.

LITTORAL ROCK THRUSH

One for the Vine
(Genesis)

and be careful what you bump into!

Time to buy a new Frock.

MADAGASCA MAGPIE ROBIN

Wall to Wall Smiling Faces

BLACK EGRET

UMBRELLA-ING

ACACIA?

WHITE-FOOTED SPORTIVE LEMUR

You Wait an Hour and then Two Come Along

GIANT COUA

Oh No Not Another National Park

WHITE-THROATED RAIL

The Interior

MADAGASCA CUCKOO-ROLLER

Yet Another Lovely Smiling Lady

FOSSA
the King of the Predators on the Island, the size of a St Bernard's but slimmer, we found c14 in total and this ain't in a Zoo!

Safe to say this is an
ACACIA

The Archetype
RING-TAILED LEMUR

A FLOWER

CHABERT'S VANGA
Another 24 shots of an Amazing Place on Earth and with still a few left in the locker we see no reason not to extend the Trilogy on Sunday's to come - ENJOY!