More Patch

Because you just can't get enough.


Patrols on Saturday led to shock year ticks, but never mind them as here are some awful pictures for your suffering and woe interest;

Bumblebee!

[Would have been sharp, but the bee was vibrating!]

Juvenile Blackbirds!*

:D

Waiting 'patiently'

"Will you two stop that racket, 

I'm pecking as hard as I can!"

Swallow

[Really]

Swift

Pretty flowers of some sort

My little Hawthorn is coming out at last..

:D

Shock year ticks? Never mind the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects a flypast Cuckoo! [Well, not here, anyway!]. Heading away by the time I got optics on it, so all I can say for sure [even minding the date] is it was a grey morph.

Second [and FYI twice as common on Patch] was only picked up via the mad fortune of scanning the sky at Tessier, watching Swifts [as was that flyover Swallow]. I noticed a few gulls, way up and descending... Hmm, what are they doing up there, wondered I.

I had a closer look and saw something else, even further removed into the airy heights; long wings, short tail, rather white underneath. But no, not another gull**, those wings, while with a carpal kink, were more evenly broad and had fingered tips. Ooooooh.
Ye Gods and Little Fishes it was high up, though! [And not surprising, with a) the thermals in the heat, and b) all the gulls to encourage their use!]


Coming up, a trip far far away from the hordes on t' Moor, and some actually half-decent [but only half] shots of various forms of wild life.


Be Seeing You...



[[*That 'guck' has been swept up and left deliberately, to give the Blackbirds something to pick through - mixing mealworms in hides them from the frelling pigeons. Just in case you were wondering if I was actually that mucky.]]
[[**Though 99 times out of a hundre- Actually, more like 999 out of a thousand!]]