Look Through Any Window - The Hollies

 but more particularly the caravan window, from where again we a captured the unexpected, this time

unaware

and seemingly totally relaxed

JACKDAW
while enroute to the Moth Traps

BUFF-TAILED BUMBLEBEE

WHITE-TAILED BUMBLEBEE
plus a bonus

RED ADMIRAL
were spotted on the wing long before getting anywhere close, a good start to the day

further endorsed by a First for the Year from the traps

HORSE CHESTNUT

However, a call from the Groundsman at the Golf Club got us scampering as reporting c2

SHEDUCK

flying around, but we never did catch the male in flight,

but worthy of investigation as not only another

First for the Year

but also an annual breeder hereabouts - here's hopeing..
(male left with female)
With no reappearance of the Marsg Tits being the downside, the up was another gathering of

COLLARED DOVEs

which might suggest another successful breeding year?
News from the Solar Panel Compound shows that the Sheep have now settled in, and will doubbless be worthy of an update Post of their own in days to come, while the

BADGERs

appear to have abandoned the Sett there

having made

Great Excavations

(William Shakespeare)

On the Heath

where among the

detritus
PINE CONES etc

still stand the
Mushroom Marks

of the 

Foresters Pine Clearance - Nice Touch.

also among all of this we are still recording

WOODLARK

on a daily basis
YES!
while finding among others our first of the year

SELFHEAL
and

"We'll gather
VIOLETs
in the spring again, and walk together down a leafy lane"!
but not a word to the Herdsman about the escapee 'rare breed'

OLD ENGLISH GOAT
We had to make a Treble Take (naked eye, binnoculars and photograph) on this to be sure we were not seeing things, before calling in Richard, we don't touch such things.
Despite that, it would seem on his arrival it had it had re-established itself with the others with no signs of a 'bolt hole'!

The path is clear though no eyes can see, the course laid down long before.
And so with God's and men, the Goats remain inside their pen,
though many times they've seen a way to leave. 

A slant on the Genesis classic Firth of Fifth 

from the album Selling England by the Pound 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

Weekend Warrior - Iron Maiden

Preamble:- It was as far back as 2006 that it was decided to pay a visit to the ‘Teardrop of India’ but could not have imagined what quirk of fate lay in store. For best value time-wise it was an organised visit, which we usually avoided, that was opted for and entering the hotel bar the couple at the other end seemed to be European?

SIGIRIYA ROCK

PAINTED STORK

Within a very few moments it was discovered that they too were English, but not only that as also fellow residents of Dorset, a situation you couldn’t make up in your dreams.

Barriers and walkways complying with Health and Safety Regulations!

BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER

The usual “you’ll have to come over for dinner when we get back” followed, was taken up and over the following years, despite the distance between Weymouth, where I then lived, and East Parley a firm and lasting friendship developed and remains to this very day.

SRI LANKA

BLACK-NECKED STORK

ORANGE-BREASTED GREEN PIGEON

   Across a couple of the intervening years, along with my then ladyfriend Sue we compiled a fairly comprehensive Wildlife Survey at the request of the owner which showed some rather interesting creatures but over the following years something of, like most other places, a downwards spiral, which brings us to the crux of this weeked post. Arriving at the traps on the Heath on Saturday morning and immediately finding a 'first for the year'

TAWNY PINION

we were also being distracted by familiar but unidentifiable bird calls from above.
It took a while but once clapping eyes on the we just couldn't belive our eyes to see c2, or maybe 4?

MARSH TIT

which were recorded as a pair on just 2 occassions during our inventory of 2008

and a single 'vocal' individual at the fence-line with the Airport the following year.
This, or these, weekend records

were considered at the very least to be 'scarce' but maybe that should read downright 'rare'?
In the same small copice of woodland were also found a small number of both

SISKIN

which is nothing like

'daily'

along with

LESSER REDPOLL

which also belong in the 'scarcity' bracket!
Sunday was not quite so fruitful or compelling but did have its moments with

DOTTED CHESTNUT

increasing the Year List even further in addition to this 

striking

BLACK-HEADED CARDINAL BEETLE

along with

STRIPED MILLIPEDE
also from the traps.
Later, and at far closer quarters than recent images,

we relocated

just 2 of what had become 3

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

while keeping a weather-eye out

for the

ABSENTEE
while at

Lighting Up Time

this Jet Airliner scribing a picturesque arc across the evening sky.