Out on the Wily, Windy Moor - Kate

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With so much going on we have got behind a little in fact as far away as last Sunday when after attending the  Moth Trap to the tune of a single

WINTER MOTH

along with our second DOR BEETLE of the year
we also paid our first visit of the year to the

HEATH
where, as ever, our long lost friends were awaiting our arriva bothl the

GOATs
and the Bull

OLD ENGLISH WHITE
with the biggest Salt Lick we have ever seen followed by the 'first for the year'

STONECHAT
singular, close to the leafless and not 'trembling' at this time of year,

ASPENs

With the other Cattle at great distance the intent was to turn the Reptile Covers

which on the cross-path we did, drawing a blank

but that's when they spotted us an charging across the Heath to see what 'goodies' we had brought for them!

c 2 WOODLARK

brought up yet another species to the Year List while we noted that there are now

c5 AIRBUS AIRCRAFT 

on the pan and seemingly redundant?
with a lone

DARTFORD WARBLER
bringing up the 67th species to be recorded this year for our patch!

Blue Moon - I Saw You Standing Alone

 Bit of a rush job with the E-Mail crash also hampering our progress, but here's hoping we are now back in busines? Next and second on the Spring (not quite yet) flower list showing just a hint of flowers

 DAFFODILS
and despite the crash from 9C to zero stil open water on the ponds supporting at least a single

LITTLE GREBE

along with the same number of
TUFTED DUCK

Good to See
with just a single

CORMORANT
just visible through the dense tree-line, along the Moors River, while

at the Moth Trap another, this time tame,

SPRING USHER 

while the find of the day and an addition to the

a somewhat hoped for before the Winter subsides

a most welcome

GREEN SANDPIPER
with the photography ending on the doorstep with the subject matter being one of the remaining 2

HELMETTED GUINEAFOWL
it can only get better????

MADAGASCAR Part III

 

The Best of Accommodation with attendant Jacarand

COMMON JERY

YELLOW-SNOUTED RING-TAILED LEMUR

SQUACO HERRON

GREEN (hungry) IGUANA

WHOOPS

PITTA-LIKE GROUND ROLLER

COMMON BROWN LEMUR

CRESTED COUA

SICKLE-BILLED VANGA

YELLOW-BILLED KITE

SIFAKA

SUCKER-FOOTED BATS

BARRED OWL

MADAGASCAR FLYING FOX

BRINGING HOME the BACON

SAKALAVA WEAVER

BROWN MOUSE LEMUR

Finale Next Week

Granny Get Down off the Gas-Stove

 You're to Old to be Riding the Range

Again it was ROBINs that stole the show at the wakening hour but not without a 'base-line' from above, a mixed skein of

GREYLAG GEESE
plus a few

CANADA GEESE
requesting permission to land, while at what was once known as the
Puddle of Mud now stand the first of the promised

lorries / trailers - let's just see how long it takes to be strewn with litter? While the only news from the water-courses was good albeit just the / or another single male

TUFTED DUCK
further to which there were also Moths

yes plaural but both of the same species but enough to fill a small desire as

2 x SPRING USHERs
with the rest of the morning

taken up by

some of the

youngest

EQUESTRIANS

we have ever seen at the

CENTRE