Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington

Another day of wall to wall rain but the Levee hasn't broken yet!
No good thinking of staying forever as there was that rendezvous at

Jorge Newbery Airport

in a couple of days time to meet Jim and his lovely wife Liz 

who had already booked me into the same hotel.

£120 Quid a Night?

The most that had been paid en-route was £8.00 while the average was £5.00 

"Paintings on the bulkheads, at a princely price,

we are only prisoners here of our own device!"

 Hotel California Revised

 TOUCAN BARBET

I'd had some of Jim before across Gambia, France, India, Mongolia, 

South Africa and others and know full well that

"Hoot with the Owl and Sing with the Lark"

doesn't come into it, good at the first half but felt a few mornings on my own comeing up!

Better get that 'Barnet' spruced up a bit alse me Pals won't recognise me?

RUFOUS MOTMOT
Oh blast, the flight was on time and they were on it!

 Hope they've bought a

 GREAT THRUSH
 (no not that but a)

Fist Full of Pesos

 BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY
Priorites, get them to the hotel, get my 120 quid off of them and then allow them to

 treat me to a

Light Lunch
This is where the sophistication of Buenos Aires (and the rest of Argentina) begins
where nearly all of the cafe and restaurat staff are male and totally 
immaculate and dedicated to everything they do

 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON
 Over the next couple or 3 days ir was a series of more 
Restaurants, Sight Seeing, Beer Bars and shaking a Wicked Hoof or Two
Old hat to me but high on their, and for that matter everyone elses, priority list

 RECOLETA CEMETARY

 INCA JAY
 where lies the body of

Eva Perón

YELLOW-BREASTED ANTPITTA

EVITA
You Know I'll Always Love You!

When the Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie

I was woken this morning at 02:30 by a call that 
"I would not have missed for the Whole World" but really didn't anticipate what was to follow!
A quick look outside showed 2 oktas of cloud cover, a gentle breeze, clear atmoshere and the
continuing and continuous vocals of both
Cuckoo and Tawny Owl
What is referred to as my Star Tunnel is the skylight above my bunk which at that time was crammed full of Heavenly Bodies (but enough about me) and then a satellite,
followed by another and another until the passage seemed as if it would never end. 
Plying betweed bunk and door there was also thought to be other items of
Space Junk and even, it was considered, a Shooting Star. However the best came when a far faster and brighter body arrived from the west at 04:15 and quickly disappeared to the east, 
it could only have been the
International Space Station - but will check with NASA later
Unfortunately, and on the downside, on the optimum night (the 29th) there was no sign of the
Lyra Meteor Shower!
Yer carn't have 'em all! 
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay

Just how much more accurate Weather Forecasting has become in recent years is immeasurable,

so when they said 'heavy rain' for Tuesday we cut our cloth accordingly starting with just little peeks outside of Slight Return II where on the very first jaunt we clapped eyes on c3

 First For The Year

HOUSE MARTIN

which by late afternoon had increased to a swarm of about 3 dozen or more!

Good start given the conditions but we needed a lull to get among the 

Moths

There was also a decent catch from the traps which included

BLOOD-VEIN

 SHARP-ANGLED PEACOCK

and

LESSER SWALLOW PROMINENT 

(all 'firsts for the year)

and for comparison

SWALLOW PROMINANT
right showing a far less of a white triangle at the trailing edge of the wing 
before heading off to the hinterland!

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well

(many years later covered by Led Zeppelin via the album Coda)

It was there that once again we encountered more 

 SISKIN

than we have ever recorded across our Patch

and had our memory been as acute as the weather forecasts

you would have been made aware of that day's ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgeqMb7oKh0

(and here by just Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Helpers)

Cryin' won't help you prayin' won't do you no good
Now cryin' won't help you prayin' won't do you no good
Cus’ when the levee breaks mama you got to move
Well huddled up in the safety and dry conditions of the 
Mobile Hide
(that is the Strange Rover)
we continued our search despite the inclement weather to find next
something of a bedraggled and not overly obliging

 JAY
in the rain before visiting the Irrigation Pond where the Coot have abandoned the building
of a second nest in favour of starting a third

which is of Angkor Wat proportions
( which remindes me of eating Giant Coot while visiting 
Lake Titicaca - a daily staple there)

All last night sat on the levee and moaned
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home
Going to Chicago

Sorry but I can't take you

WE ALWAYS LOOK FOREWARD TO BETTER TO COME
HERE'S HOPING!
Just checked, ISS transited over South Coast of England
04:20 Thursday 30 April 2020
YES!