Lightning Striking Again and Again and Again and Again - Lou Christie

 On the face of it another

Fine Day
despite the frost, but across the southern reaches no need even to take the shoes and socks off to compile the Brid Tally. The dearth continued across all 3 watercourses but joy of joys on reaching the Sewerage Works where c3 'first for the year'

GREENFINCH
were engaged in singing their none to melodic songs. Augmented by no more than a fleeting glimps of the now semi-resident male Merlin, already booked, and also vocal

what might be considered a 'pair' (male) and

GOLDCREST
(female) were also added to the tally.
Strange happenings the moment we entered the Solar Panel Compounf to find this female

PHEASANT

preening while perched atop of the units, a sight only recorded once before across the panels since their construction 5 years ago.

It was also noted how Moss and other debris is taking hold across the panels,

surely reducing production one way or the other and maybe time Mr Tugwell and his team of cleaners paid another visit?
No more than a dozen rows further on another addition to the Year List featured this

SPARROWHAWK

"blink and you'll miss it"

aforded us no more than a few seconds

so maybe clearer views

from the archive.
With the lightning of Good Luck already having struck twice in the same place it was about to continue as we spotted what can only be considered as the local male

PHEASANT
which for months now has always been in company with what maybe the only remaining

RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE

so we'll make the most of it

while

they last.

Great Value

but not the end of it as up ahead c3

MISTLE THRUSH's

carrying out what could only be described as

low elevation

Display Flights

unfortunately

not consigned to the

CANON

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