many years from now...
When Im Sixty Four, Paul McCartney
Is it me...early day yesterday and I had to have an afternoon snooze....?....im just getting too old for this...and the one thing I find about a snooze during the day is I wake up feeling worse....urgh!! But I couldnt help it....a quick relax and I was off....bah! Getting old is not what it was...heh heh!!
Anyway...enough of that...WeBS day....so...
0600 - 0730 bright, clear, warm
The nice weather, as forecast actually, has remained...fab...a quick walk along the pits today, no counting of warblers....but...for the record....and if I can remember everything I heard or saw...(this is yet another issue of getting older!)...
Nightingale, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Woodpigeon, Stock Dove, Crow, Jackdaw, Feral Pigeon, Robin, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush (carrying food), Blackbird, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tail Tit, Skylark, Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Collared Dove, Starling, Buzzard, Jay, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer, Dunnock, Wren, Linnet.....and possibly other bits too....
...and the WeBS bit....
12 Mallard, 15 Tufted Duck, 19 Coot, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Canada Geese, 4 Mandarin Duck (3m 1f), 2 Moorhen, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Common Tern...I think this is the most I have seen at the pits!
Mandarin Duck
Seems the only pair....
After the 'kids' invasion a couple of weeks ago...this appeared....I mean, give the person credit, its reasonable and I probably couldnt do it so he or she has had a bit of practice at it...though I wonder on whos wall?
Anyway, the upshot of the invasion was the alarm of the 'landowner'...well, you know how they get, not that they actually own the land on which the pits are situated but the kids dared to cross their land to get there....so security has increased....Lafarge have come along and put up another sign and some barbed wire on one of the gates and repaired one of the fences. Pointless.
If the kids want to get in, guess what, they will...if anyone else wants to get in, as they have....they will....onward I say.....at least im not the one doing the worrying like someone I know...
Hi Graham, you mean you dont take a notebook out when you go!
ReplyDeleteHad to laugh about your afternoon kip, i'm the same, as soon as I sit down to read or relax, i get sleepy, what a pair of old gits we are :-)
thanks for your comment on my blog re the plants and stuff, it seems our year lists are on the same number - 89, I expect to get to 100 though, no reason why you shouldn't top that where you are :-)