Wrapped up in some powdered wool I guess I'm losing touch.
Don't tell me this is dying, 'cause I ain't changed that much.
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am,
Some kind of jam?
Cuckoo Cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
Don't tell me this is dying, 'cause I ain't changed that much.
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am,
Some kind of jam?
Cuckoo Cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
It would strike us as
a little churlish to once again bemoan our fortunes at the Moth Traps but fact
is it appears to be getting worse! Given our rare capture of Sunday, the
Shining Marbled, from which we got a great deal of satisfaction, we now hark
back to Wednesday when there was nothing of note at all. Given the persistent,
daylong and sometimes heavy rain on that day it was lucky we got to the traps
at all, but with some moderation at 15:00 we made a dash for it clicking one of the fruit ladened
CRABAPPLE TREEs
with Wicker Donkey
on the way.
The dash slowed to
a canter as approaching the Irrigation Pond, as the rain also eased to a moderate
drizzle, but driven by a stiff westerly breeze, things were still prohibitive to say the least! There we
found a moment of respite in the shape of a new brood of
MOORHEN
chicks
with all but this one scampering for cover.
We will be trying for better images when the rain abates.
At the Gravel Pit more success on encountering a
GREENSHANK
which is considered 'rare' here
but while no stats have been kept it is doubtful
if even half a dozen have been seen here since records began in 2013.
Not 5 minutes from here and driving along the
Solar Panel Fenceline
what looked to be a Kestrel flew atop one of the posts but was reluctant to allow a closer look!
At some distance and with the rain directly on our starboard bow,
we managed to gain position only to fine that it was in fact a
CUCKOO
but not of the ordinare type
but in fact a
'HEPATIC'
(the name deriving from the colour if Liver -yes the meat)
and looking every bit like a 'juvenile' bird.
Only a change in 'morph' and exactly the same as the ones more familiar to us,
shown below, it is confined to female birds with some authorities claiming that about
10% of female Cuckoo's are affected with this colouration.
Not quite sure how such conclussions are come by but when considering scientists,
and helpers, find such things as the staple diet of Nightjar's is almost exclusively that of the
True Lover's Knot Moth
then, "where there's a will, there's surely a way"!
Since my conversion to Bird Watching in 1973
it is unlikey that double figures of sighting of this delightful 'form' have been seen!
Some images along with
a couple of video clips
for
comparison with the archetype
Smart Birds!
Thinking back, had it not been for the inclement weather delaying my progress this bird would not have been seen at all but that was not the end of it as settling to rummage through the fairly depleted traps the long overdue song was heard of a
WOOD WARBLER
(this only the 3rd ever for our Recording Area)
With a good number of other Warbler of the same family group, we hope our images above
are those of the right bird - they looks good to me?
Otherwise, and to save confussion, we have 'borrowed' this image from the Internet.
Another, and Final, example of the Ill Wind providing some Good
(Belted Galloway)
the surface water is proving popular with the
(Shetland)
RARE BREEDS CATTLE
refreshing the herbage and providing a convenient drink at the same time.
We will be trying for better images when the rain abates.
At the Gravel Pit more success on encountering a
Solar Panel Fenceline
what looked to be a Kestrel flew atop one of the posts but was reluctant to allow a closer look!
(the name deriving from the colour if Liver -yes the meat)
and looking every bit like a 'juvenile' bird.
shown below, it is confined to female birds with some authorities claiming that about
Not quite sure how such conclussions are come by but when considering scientists,
and helpers, find such things as the staple diet of Nightjar's is almost exclusively that of the
True Lover's Knot Moth
then, "where there's a will, there's surely a way"!
Since my conversion to Bird Watching in 1973
it is unlikey that double figures of sighting of this delightful 'form' have been seen!
Thinking back, had it not been for the inclement weather delaying my progress this bird would not have been seen at all but that was not the end of it as settling to rummage through the fairly depleted traps the long overdue song was heard of a
(this only the 3rd ever for our Recording Area)
are those of the right bird - they looks good to me?
Another, and Final, example of the Ill Wind providing some Good
the surface water is proving popular with the
RARE BREEDS CATTLE
refreshing the herbage and providing a convenient drink at the same time.
I wonder if I'm a prisoner locked up in some Brooklyn jail
Or some sort of Jonah shut up inside the whale.
No, I'm still Rael and I'm stuck in some kind of cave,
What could've saved me?
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
Or some sort of Jonah shut up inside the whale.
No, I'm still Rael and I'm stuck in some kind of cave,
What could've saved me?
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?
from the album - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
No rush to swing out of the hammock this morning
with wind speeds already 'kissing' 35 m.p.h.!
