Living in the Past - Jethro Tull - A Sunday Special - Part I

 To keep the Sunday momentum going we have delved into the archive once again not only to bring our valued audience a glimps into some of the World's Minor Treasures but also to relive those moments ourself!

ANGKOR WATT - CAMBODIA

with likely its most famed tableau the
Battle of the Sea of Milk

The warmest of welcoms from everyone at the

GOLDEN TEMPLE AMRITSAR 

 where 50,000 cooked meals are given free daily to not only the 'pilgrims' but all visitors alike.
Another querky fact is that the higher your station in life the more

'washing up' you are expected to do.

"Dohbie, Dhobie, Dhobie never go ashore, never have to join the queue outside the Sick Bay door"!

And so on to Jordan and the
7 Pillars of Wisdom and

the magnificence of
PETRA or the ROSE CITY

not 'built' but carved out of the cliff-face!

THE JOSHUA TREE - CHILE
and U 2

LAKE ATITLAN - GUATEMALA
in search of the long, long time extinct 

Atitlan Grebe. 

Extinction. The decline of the Atitlán grebe began in 1958 and again in 1960 after Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) were introduced into Lake Atitlán. These invasive species reduced the crabs and fish species which the grebes depended on for food and killed grebe chicks.

LIVINGSTONE WE PRESUME
on the Zimbabwe side of the mighty

VICTORIA FALLS

CHURCH SAND CARPET
Chichicastenango , Guatemala

VOLCAN ARENAL - COSTA RICA

VERMILION FLYCATCHER

Mexico / Belize Border

Behind Bars

 Given the recent appauling weather no surprise to find just c2 species across the c3 Moth Traps

CLOUDED DRAB
and

HEBREW CHARACTER
but the day will surely come with for now publishing just what we have caught!

With LITTLE OWL now making its presents known by song

it was considered the right time to check out the traditional
Roost cum Nesting Sight which bore fruit with just a

single bird in attendance on the second try - here's hoping!
while the local male

KESTREL

is sticking doggedly to the wrong side of the fence

as far as capturing a perfect image is concerned while the 'pale' female is all but absent.
Still down south and more hope in sight as the first

'displaying'

LAPWING
was found and later the presumed same group of resident

ROE DEER

both Feeding and Resting

were relocated on the Western Pasture

with enough
CHIFFCHAFFs

for one each and half a decent shot - it's starting to happen!

Sugarbush - Doris Day & Frankie Laine

 For those who did not contact the gremlins on Wednesday we re-glue the c2 Moth species that were First for the Year on that day:-

including

YELLOW HORNED

along with

OAK BEAUTY
then back to the present when inclement (to say the least) weather ruled the roost and hence to poor images!

Where

both

Northers Thrush's
FIELDFARE
and

REDWING
still prevail.
Otherwise, it was the Blooming Bushes that stole the show with

SALLOWs
(Moth Magnets in their own right leading the way)

Considered another 'fall' of

LINNETs

along with another, this time unidentified,

Bush of Blossom

GREENFICH

in the gloom

The last of the BUSHES for now at least and a few representatives of the ever growing

BLACK-HEADED GULL
flock incuding passing male Mallard.

"Breakfast at Tiffanie's" - Deep Blue Something

Across what was likely the most numerous catch of the year there were no species added to the Year Tally but good to see both

DOTTED BORDER

along with only our second

DOUBLE-STRIPED PUG 

while also recorded were what are considered to be c2 seperate species of

ICHNEUMON WASP

but it was then that it dawned on us that the lamp in this,

The Solar Panel Compound Trap  

has been burning continuously day and night for over a year now. We've certainly had full value out of that, plus there is every indication that we may well have the other 2 traps flashed up there by the end of the week? Otherwise, and lucky to be able to keep the promise of better images of yesterday's male

WHEATEAR

we firstly found the female above

followed by maybe the same

male of the day before?

but there's no chance of proving that.
Changing the tune slightly our second onlt Butterfly of the year a single

COMMA
followed by

numerous

GREAT TIT

overlooking the Heath a small number of

SISKIN
along with a 'jammy' shot of this

CHIFFCHAFF
about to tuck into breakfast, the 'dot' above.