Something For the Weekend - The Devine Comerdy

 With nothing in the Moth Traps that our readers would want to hear about again and very little in the Wilder World, after a quick circuit it was decided to give Longham Lakes another look. With the main thrust being the report of newly arrived

SWIFT

Backing vocals provided by masses of

Sedge Warbler that just wouldn't be clicked.
The only other

Warbler to offer itself up was the diminutive

CHIFFCHAFF

which were also numerous but only tollerated us for 11 seconds at a time.
At the other end of the scale this

MUTE SWAN
caught our interest as still having something of the 'juvenile' about it and talking of which this

BLACK-HEADED GULL
was not quite in its adult prime either

but looked good against a full adult and being serenaded by a
Cuckoo.

We have no
BEACH TREES
here so make the most of the Giants along the western perimiter

while being in varying stages of leaf.

Unfortuneately, we cannot claim

COOT
(with Black-headed Gulls)

nesting here so far this year and having been almost totally absent we try not to loose hope.
Even on an 'away day' we seem not to be able to dodge the traffic from

Bournemouth International Airport
(Airbus A340)
It is highly unlikely we will ever record

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

locally but remain ever hopeful

maybe one day?

While the Models Yachts remained more or less

BECALMED

numerous

REED BUNTING

strut their stuff

in an effort to secure the hand, or maybe that should be claw, of a

FairMaiden

while we close 

with a reminder of the weather, in part, from the doorstep on

SATURDAY!

Living in the Past - Jethro Tull Part II

 Creeping along the Venezuelan

PRE-DAWN BEDROOM CORRIDORs
had the desired effect as both

RUFOUS-VENTED CHACHALACA
and

BUFF-NECKED IBIS
were making the most of the Cattle Trough and the

SKY
looked fair set for another day at the office!

Widespread across most of the America's

ROADSIDE HAWK

jaunty

SAFFRON FINCH

CAPIBARI
likely singing

"So folloe me follow down to the hollow,
and there let us wallow in glorious mud"!
not exclusive to the Hippopotamus!

GREAT KISKADEE

SWALLOW TANAGER

MUSCOVY DUCK
(not the 'plastic' kind as found in UK)

RINGED KINGFISHER
One of the absolute favourites anywhere in the world is getting down with the

LOCALS
and if they just happen to be Female then all the better!

SPOT-BREASTED WOODPECKER

JABIRU

AMERICAN FLAMINGO + BROWN PELICAN
A strange kind of bird is the Pelican,
its bill can hold more than its belly can!

WHITE-HEADED MARSH TYRANT

RUFECENT TIGER HERON

GREEN IGUANA

WHISTLING HERON

ANHINGA

YELLOW-CROWNED PARROT

HOME SWEET HOME

with one more to come next Sunday!

The Hunter - Free

 Later, to metamorphose into Bad Company

HURRAY, HURRAY THE FIRST OF MAY - WE HOPE MORE MOTHS WILL COME OUR WAY! 

At the time of activating the Moth Traps (20:30) the temperature was still holding a much awaited +14°C with a follow up of +8°C at dawn. There were however predictions of showers raining on our parade, but even they remained at bay until we had completed the rounds at least. A little keyed up it might be said, that right out of the norm we attended to the 2 home-bound ones first with both drawing a ‘blank’. A little deflated we headed for the Heath where we were about to see the other side of the coin with all of the following being ‘firsts for the year’!

Common but none the less Welcome

SCALLOPED HOOK-TIP
same credentials but nonetheless sort after

BIRCH MOCHA
and while we know not if there are collective nouns accociated with such creatures (doubtful) we would invent our own

for a group of

CHOCOLATE-TIP

a Cadbury of or a Bar of!
While we continue to maintain that "we don't do Micro Moths" (to many, to tiny and to time consuming) there is one that has been hammered into us over a number of years and now easily recognisable as

MUSOTIMA NITIDALIS
Like the vast majority of the other Micros, it seems like hundreds, it has no vernacular name but have had it drummed into me that this is an import from the Antipodes with the first for Great Britain being found in Dorset in 2009 thought to have arrived among cargos of Tree Ferns.
Things get far more simple as we recount the rest of the day which featured little more than
Common Stuff

commencing with the finding of a new

BADGER SETT

consisting of 9, what look like, active burrows.
This only came about while attempting to capture all c3 of the Heathland

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

on a single snap.
(gaping)

before being distracted by this most obliging

Chap or Chapess

carrying out a number of functions such as

preening
and

singing.

It would also seem that a small pod of

WHEATEAR

also

wafted

in last night

with this one already fraternizing with the local
Meadow Pipit's.

MISTLE THRUSH

numbers also continue to rise

across the best restaurant in town the
Solar Panel Compound
where you don't have to 'sing for your supper'

but it certainly helps

if you are a

decent hunter.
We will surely be keeping a Weather Eye on the newly found
Badger Sett
with any antics being delivered to your door without payment or delay!

Pound for Pound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3GHq53Wo4

Paul Rogers 

has to be the greatest Blues Howler this country has ever fathered. Seen live as his own entity at

Nottingham all those years ago, thought I was melting - WoW!

TOMORROW BEING SUNDAY, ARE YOU GOING TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES TO JOIN YOU AT 'HATO PINERO'??