Filler post

Apologies for the yet another the usual the delay in getting on with posting proper blog material.

I will get to it,    no really.

 

I may need a serious infusion of inspiration, and then a time machine to go back and remember what the vickers I was going to post when the words wouldn't come, but I will get to it.

 

 

Anyways, have a nice Buzzard

Yup, itsa Buzzard

This is indeed one of the three raptors from my last post.

I'm sure you're all shocked and amazed.

This Buzzard annoyed me even more than I'm annoying you right now.

One day I may even tell you why.

Until another day,

I shall

Be Seeing You...

Not Another Awful Pic

I was going to put this up on the Other Place, but as ely's goons can't code for toffee*, here we are.

Anyways, I was up skywatching on Friday when I picked up no less than three raptors, almost on top of me. I went for the camera and took a snapshot to make sure I hit something, then tried zooming in, but to no avail as one vanished behind the trees and didn't come back... I'll put a pic of one of the other two up later, but right now, what can you see?

No clues, genuinely curious.

Pesky trees, spoil

so many photos

Proper posting will resume.

Be Seeing You...

[[* Landscape format only.      Really? ]]

[[Oh, and no italics or bold text, either.  Very poor.]]

Summer!

SWIFTS!

 

At last!

Summer is officially here, we have Swifts!!!!

Wooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

😁      😎

Ahem.

Four low and screaming, right here, right now.

Persistence. Pt.1, Tarting About The Dart

Having some holiday to 'use or else', I picked making the May Day bank hollyday a nice long one. It's usually a good time of year for Swifties at least, so what the hell.

The Dart is well-named, for much of it is wooded, and Oak wooded at that. I've been spending a while in such areas, as spiring-arriving birdies are, well, arriving. Some are more helpful that others, especially when it comes to posing for the camera [little darlings]. Same goes for other flying things, such as our title pic;

Yes, it's a bad picture

But it is a picture of a male Brimstone, in flight, taken from across the Dart.

Oh yes.

Only once ever has a Brimstone been helpful - and I had to wade through brambles to get an angle, even then - they are almost as bad as Orange-tips...

Ahem.

Also Yellow,

"What are you looking at?"

A current theme,

Oh noes, another beetle...

The Dart was friskier

than previously

Mallards fear no rivers

Though he was working very hard for very little progress...

More progress was had by a certain 'orrible dog, who managed to not only purloin a flapjack on a nice afternoon by said river, but also slobber me right in the face..  😧 Arg.

And on that terrible note, I shall

Be Seeing You...

So Cute

Arachnophobes should note that this beauty could comfortably sit on the nail of your little finger.

Everyone else, go "Awwwwwwww";

Heliophanus cupreus

Female

I believe it is important, when yearlisting an area, to cover as much of that area as possible.

So when doing Devon, you should get up North and over East and out West and down South.

Thus I was somewhere I've not been for a while - though I am rather fond of it - to definitelynotchasesomeoneelse'sbird seek interesting birds, both on land and at sea. I may even have succeeded.

More on this will follow, after I've, ah, posted about all the other stuff. [Not least the importance of looking at what you can see.*]

I will be doing this. Honest.

I'm not spending all my online time over There.

Not all of it.

Ahem.

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[[*IYKYK]]

More Trees

Last weekend saw not so much birding done [tut] but I got out again and once the clouds got bored with raining sideways at me and buggered off, it wasn't bad.!

What pic to put up first for that thumbnail...

Hmm, how about this one?

Oh noes, he's getting

all arty again...

There is a Garden Warbler in this picture, but I'll be amazed if you can see it [I had enough trouble..]

By far the most populous warblers - and also the most visible - were again these things;

Hawthorn Warbler

;)

But I did mention trees, so here are some more;

Sometimes sunny, sometimes cloudy.

 

Wood Sorrel

Inevitable grainy bird shots,

Cuckoo

Mistle Thrush

Treeeecreeeeper!

Flied Pycatcher

They are everywhere.

And...

Never mind ID the moth,

spot the moth?!?

And!

Wood Mouse!

Two Bank Voles also broke cover in my sight, but were too quick for the camera. Only the open road let me get this [and yes, it did dive down the drain..]

Lots of pictures, few words. What can you do?

Be Seeing You...