Ticking Away the Moments that Make up a Dull Day - Floyd!

With a balmy and unseasonably high of +10°C overnight 'last' Monday surely at least ‘A’ Moth would be found in the traps?? The outcome of that was only a couple of

ICHNEUMAN WASPs
within but there were additionally c6 Moths all clinging to the white-sides of the caravan.

possible migrant a single

DARK SWORD-GRASS

c2 distinctly different

MOTTLED UMBER

2 x WINTER MOTH

all additions to the Year List, and yet another

SILVER Y

Otherwise a dull day currently with little going for it even for those from further afield.
EMU

The 'highlight', if it can be called that on such a dull day, would have to be the c12

SONG THRUSH
all in the same paddock down south

along with just a couple of

REDWING

Having had to lift a couple of these images from the archive

these 2 show the real picture on the day while at the Airport someting of a reminder that while we had logged

ROOK

on the first day of the year it had not yet reached to logbook or the Blog.

A moderate improvement across the bridleway up north but

only a pair of

MALLARD

for our efforts, so best voiced in 'low tones'
surely it can only get better??

The Fine Line Between Love and Haiti - Part IV

 Among the deprivation and lack of basic needs there did seem to be that upbeat feel about everyone I met across Haiti and felt to have seen the best of it, but there was one final surprise to that last day (Sunday).  Along with all of Ernso and Gina's family, Brandon and a whole bunch of other friends we all mustered at

with eyes seeming a little blurred even before finding our places, but even better a 'massive goody' before getting through the main gate

NORTHERN POTO
a nocturnal species not dissimilar to our own Nightjar only larger.

The most fantastic thing about the whole Restaurant

cum Nightclub with limited accommodation and

CAVE SWALLOWs
nesting under the eves and which can be found breeding under most road and rail bridges througout much of the America's, is that 90% of the construction materials were recycled even down to the

 NiftyWine Glasses

confiding and opportunist
PALM WARBLER

before taking a

peek

inside and out again to find the ubiquitous

RUFOUS-COLLARED SPARROWs

while it would be readily agreed by 'both parties' that Brandon and I hit it off from the very start.
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me,
than a full frontal lobotomy!

ZENAIDA DOVE

Unfortunately as the Wine went in the Wit went out

HISPANIOLAN EMERALD
(endemic)
and

BANANAQUIT
widespread and numerous.

The first members of the Band to show up with the wine having left the others out!

VILLAGE WEAVER
introduced from Southern Africa

and again another great favourite, oh for one in the UK

BLACK and WHITE WARBLER

Wuthering Heights

WORM-EATING WARBLER

Brandon with All his Mates!
and as a final farewell to Port-au-Prince and Haiti at large

YELLOW-FACED GRASSQUIT

THE END

Up Up and Away - 5th Dimention

 A mish-mash of all sorts heralded the weekend, mostly Common Fare but with a couple of more welcome punctuations, and while the Dawn Chorus is still predominated by the humble

HOUSE SPARROW
there are now interlopers happy to provide Backing Vocals.

GUINEAFOWL
while the first signs of anything On the Wing fell to the 08:15

TUI
heading to the south of the property in the first instance and trying to miss the

ORNIMENTALs
the collective large flocks of mixed Finches and northern Thrushes had reduced to no more

had reduced to

no more than

half a dozen

FIELDFARE

Along the course of the Moors River the

GAGGLE

of increasingly agressive

EGYPTIAN GEESE

had risen to c8.
Transiting the same watercourse on the way back the first of 2
New Birds for the Year

Towering Cumulus Cloud above the Airport

LITTLE EGRET
f.f.y. and at the Gravel Pit while admiring

the rapidly reddening of the faces and crowns of the juvenile but still patiently waiting to 'click' all 3 together!

LITTLE GREBE
above the pond flew a most vocal, but unseen

GREENSHANK
sight or sound they all count here, while ending with both

GADWALL (left) and TUFTED DUCK