More things from the Patch from the recent past.
Things have not exactly gone to plan recently and this may be reflected in the delayed and disjointed nature of my blog. [[Also, dealing with the new blagger format isn't helping. And still no spellcheck*... I mean, the old one used to have one, even basic emails have one, so why can an 'improved' blog writer not??]]
Also dealing with sudden yet inevitable Technical Issues. Ah, what can you do?
Get over them, of course. Also wibble.
Anyways, getting on with it;
I like bees. :)
Speaking of, the Ivy Bees are out in numbers, but no pictures of them yet; they have all been far too busy to strike poses for me, the little scamps.
:)
Due to Circumstances, I haven't been out often at anything like the crack of dawn, so perhaps my vismig records are a bit off, but lots of what I'm seeing is going the wrong way; well, the hirundines at least! Just Sunday, all Swallow passage [not a lot, but still] was N, as was the path of a large group - 38! - of House Martins. Mipits and finches heading the right way, as far as I can tell [largely audio].
Numbers of grounded warblers at the Nose have waxed and waned, though never in really big numbers - again a lack of fall conditions may be a factor - and with only one possible interesting one, which managed to be too elusive to nail. [[Of course...]]
Tit bands have started forming, also with 'crests, and so far I have been unable to find anything of, shall we say, an eyebrowed variety? [Unlike The Artist, again of course, but he has more time and a pet Berry Head to play with.. ::mutter mutter:: ]. Sunday also saw first Woodpig band of the season, exploding out of a very small Oak in the Ilsham Valley at my approach.
First Common Gull of the year as well as the odd Med Gull near offshore also, but nothing scarcer.
Right, pretty things!
Now those can't be Crocuses, can they??!?
Be Seeing You...
[[*Now got a hardware fix for that, though it's horribly autocorrecty, the verdamnt thing...]]
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