Well up nice and early and off to Norfolk to meet Dave. Seeing Kestel and Hobby on the way.
I arrived at Titchwell at 7:30 to find a happy Dave after finding a Willow Tit on the feeders.
Nice to see Ruddy Duck still about but the highlight was loads and loads of Bearded Tits that were very showy.
Other highlights of the walk to the beach were numerous Little Gulls, Little Tern and Little Egrets and a distant Spoonbill.
Not much off of the coast but it was much nicer than last time we were there! Any way there were Sarnie Terns, Common Scoter and one lone Eider. Oh and Sanderling scuttling along the beach. All to the accompanyment of a Skylark.
So back we head inland. There was a Greenshank amongst the Black Tailed Godwits. From Parrinder hide there are some Ruff's with some have a fair amount of the Ruff remaining! Nine Spotted Redshank and lots of avocets. Also Knot and Black Tailed Godwit. A Little Ringed Plover and a Ringed Plover had a spat!
Yet more Beardies and a burst of Cetti Warbler. Oh and a family of Ruddy Duck.
Saw the "Willow" Tit on the feeder. Um bigger bib but not very bull necked although Dave said it had looked more so from the path.
As I had had no breakfast I endulged in a bacon bap. Very nice. A bit of shopping, I picked up two of those Field Study Centre thingies British Land Mammals and British Butterflies.
Joined Dave who was "field testing" bins. Anyway after admiring the new RSPB range (looked good value) we headed off for the secret M*nt*g*'s Harrier site. This is is so secret that I can't tell you where it is. Its so secret it has a sign saying car park! Or as someone described it the worst kept secret in birding.
On my way I realised that I had left my FSC stuff at Titchwell. Bugger!
Anyway we saw a Marsh Harrier on the way before arriving at the site. Yes a sign saying car park. The female did display and then perched up. Thank you. Oh a Common Buzzard.
On to the Honey Buzzard watchpoint at Great Ryburgh. I think I'm allowed to tell you that!! As we walked to the watchpoint we noticed everyone raise their bins ahead of us so turned around to see a raptor. Um Buzzard? soaring on flat wings? looks like our boy. A few minutes later two buzzards were up and in the scope at the same time and the different flight profiles of Honey and Common could be seen.
We went to the Boar Inn at Great Ryburgh for lunch.
We looked at the board to be told it's only Roast Beef today.
Have you booked?
uh no - he heads off to check if they have enough portions.
s'ok! so we head to the garden.
Apparently this place must be popular since 4 people got turned away as they had 3 spares and we had 2 of them. Then again we saw few other people turn up. Anyway very nice it was.
We decided to head back to Titch so I could pick my leaflets up!! Went for a walk around the meadow trail. Looked at some more bins at Titch and at the in-focus store. Some very good stuff available for £300.
So home to catch the end of the footy.
Oh and we never saw a Dunlin!!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Clare Country Park
My Mum has gone through Chemo, Radiotherapy and an op at Christmas with no problem. She managed to fall over and do "something" so that walking has been very painful and for the past three weeks she has not been out. She's getting better and today we took her out for a ride.
I chose Clare Country as we could park up and she and Dad would have a nice view and yours truly could explore the park. Anyway she enjoyed it and even went for a brief hobble!
Anyway before picking them up I spotted this chap in the back garden.
On the way to pick the folks up I saw a Green Woody and on the way out of town we saw a juve Green Woody.
Clare Country Park is in the small Suffolk town of Clare. It was the home of the Clare family who built a Church (still standing and considered very fine - it's big) a Castle and an Abbey. The Abbey church never survived the reformation but one of its buildings was restored and is the Church of the reformed Abbey.
The Castle or what's left of it.
The town once had a railway, here is a loading crane.
The station and railway have long gone and the castle, grounds and railway line is now a country park.
There is a nature trail and signs indicating what you might see or not!
Alongside is the "new cut".
The bridge over the cut is very reliable for Grey Wagtail and today one was sitting on a wire singing.
There are also a couple of ponds with loads of Mallards, some of very dubious parentage but these look adorable.
Lots of flowers and insects. There were loads of Banded Demoiselle's.
Also loads of butterflies. I'm pretty sure one was a Wall but these look like Meadow Brown's to me although some confirmation would be nice!
In front of the car a demented Crow chased damselflies and Mallards! Until he came to Mum and her chick when he was given what for.
Oh and this fella!
Ok I won't pretend this place is Minsmere but it is a lovely patch for the general naturalist.
I chose Clare Country as we could park up and she and Dad would have a nice view and yours truly could explore the park. Anyway she enjoyed it and even went for a brief hobble!
Anyway before picking them up I spotted this chap in the back garden.
On the way to pick the folks up I saw a Green Woody and on the way out of town we saw a juve Green Woody.
Clare Country Park is in the small Suffolk town of Clare. It was the home of the Clare family who built a Church (still standing and considered very fine - it's big) a Castle and an Abbey. The Abbey church never survived the reformation but one of its buildings was restored and is the Church of the reformed Abbey.
The Castle or what's left of it.
The town once had a railway, here is a loading crane.
The station and railway have long gone and the castle, grounds and railway line is now a country park.
There is a nature trail and signs indicating what you might see or not!
Alongside is the "new cut".
The bridge over the cut is very reliable for Grey Wagtail and today one was sitting on a wire singing.
There are also a couple of ponds with loads of Mallards, some of very dubious parentage but these look adorable.
Lots of flowers and insects. There were loads of Banded Demoiselle's.
Also loads of butterflies. I'm pretty sure one was a Wall but these look like Meadow Brown's to me although some confirmation would be nice!
In front of the car a demented Crow chased damselflies and Mallards! Until he came to Mum and her chick when he was given what for.
Oh and this fella!
Ok I won't pretend this place is Minsmere but it is a lovely patch for the general naturalist.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Musings
In the "good" old days you went into a shop and an assistant went and collected your order for you. Things moved on and the supermarket came along where you went into a shop picked your own items and then took them to a counter to be priced.
Well as many of you know we have gone a step further and now I am expected to scan the items myself. I mention this as my local Tesco has introduced this practice and yesterday morning at 6:15 the only checkouts open were the self service.
The supermarkets love 'em because it means less staff and hence higher profits and they say we should love 'em becuase it keeps prices down. Now this is all very well but what do the checkout staff do? I'm sure the big supermarkets won't redeploy them.
Now you might argue why do I care? Well I do have a social conscience and anyway a bit like call centres moving overseas I wonder what everyone is going to do. Yes the big companies will make more money but Joe Public won't have a job. Apparently we should be concentrating on high skill jobs but lets me honest many of us do have a limit to what we can do.
The government want us do work longer. Doing what?
I will keep saving so that I can get out of the rat race as soon as possible.
Well as many of you know we have gone a step further and now I am expected to scan the items myself. I mention this as my local Tesco has introduced this practice and yesterday morning at 6:15 the only checkouts open were the self service.
The supermarkets love 'em because it means less staff and hence higher profits and they say we should love 'em becuase it keeps prices down. Now this is all very well but what do the checkout staff do? I'm sure the big supermarkets won't redeploy them.
Now you might argue why do I care? Well I do have a social conscience and anyway a bit like call centres moving overseas I wonder what everyone is going to do. Yes the big companies will make more money but Joe Public won't have a job. Apparently we should be concentrating on high skill jobs but lets me honest many of us do have a limit to what we can do.
The government want us do work longer. Doing what?
I will keep saving so that I can get out of the rat race as soon as possible.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
You can take the boy out of Essex.....
..... but you can't take the Essex out of the boy.
Oh well sorry to the yahoo nicks for my departure last night. I just had to vent my spleen big time at someone. Hope you are all in tonight.
Anyway on the garden front I seem to have a pair of Chaffinches visiting the garden - the male was about this morning and yesterday evening I had two adult Goldfinches and two juvenile birds!
Another excellent piece of news is that the Common Terns at Hatfield Forest have three chicks on the tern raft!! This is super news and I believe is the first instance at the Forest. I am well chuffed about that.
Oh well sorry to the yahoo nicks for my departure last night. I just had to vent my spleen big time at someone. Hope you are all in tonight.
Anyway on the garden front I seem to have a pair of Chaffinches visiting the garden - the male was about this morning and yesterday evening I had two adult Goldfinches and two juvenile birds!
Another excellent piece of news is that the Common Terns at Hatfield Forest have three chicks on the tern raft!! This is super news and I believe is the first instance at the Forest. I am well chuffed about that.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
The way we ate
Britain has a reputation for terrible food. Of course this is no longer true, many of the worlds top restaurants and chefs are either British or based here. This is not just the preserve of your top chefs, you can nowadays go into many pubs and small hotels and get a very acceptable meal and a decent wine list. As some of my fellow blogers and I discovered at the Northstar Hotel in Flamborough and The Rising Sun at Bamford.
However the myth still survives. Anyone well acquainted with 21st Britain and the pure volume of TV programmes on cooking will wonder where this reputation comes from.
I suppose having parents who lived through the war and the austerity of the fifties helps my perspective. My father will happily regale me with stories of the rubbish he ate whilst in London. Apparently in the countryside it wasn't so bad and my Mum had better access to fresh vegetables. But stories of dried eggs and soups made from bone were common place stories from aunts and uncles at family Christmases.
I mention this because there was an entertaining telly programme on last night - The Bad Food Guide (inevitably it was on BBC 2). It showed the food people ate during and post war and the menus and standards of food people accepted. Food was poor, service worse and of course us uncomplaining Brits we accepted it. We even had something called the British Restaurant which was affectively school dinners for adults. These started during the war and were "popular" becuase you didn't use those precious ration tokens. They continued after the war as people knew no better. Indeed so bad were things that we had to eat Whale and Snoek and tails of some Aussie animal (hope I've got that right)
In to the fray stepped Raymond Postgate (yes his son was Oliver who did such classics as the Clangers and Noggin the Nog) who wrote articles criticising the caterers and set up the Good Food Club where anybody could write in with suggestions of decent places to eat. In 1951 he published the first Good Food Guide with over 500 recommendations marking a new era for British catering.
It seems in Britain it wasn't the professionals who led the cultural revolution but the talented amateur (ever it was thus!) like George Perry-Smith at the Hole in the Wall Bath.
The original Good Food Guide itself was terribly sexist I suspect a number of the bright sassy women who read this blog will be horrified by some of his suggestions. But that doesn't mean Postgate wasn't well intentioned and standards/attitudes today will seem equally outmodish in 50 years time.
Of course everything didn't become alright over night and of course you can still go out and eat rubbish food, but you can do that anywhere. What is important is that I know I can get a good meal virtually anywhere. Today a pub like the Miner's Arms in Eyam can have a bread pudding to die for.
The programme itself was a fascinating piece of social history.
One of the things we don't appreciate was how devastated Britain was after the War. Yes the Marshall Plan helped but I don't think people realise the impact the war left on Britain and long the effects were felt.
However the myth still survives. Anyone well acquainted with 21st Britain and the pure volume of TV programmes on cooking will wonder where this reputation comes from.
I suppose having parents who lived through the war and the austerity of the fifties helps my perspective. My father will happily regale me with stories of the rubbish he ate whilst in London. Apparently in the countryside it wasn't so bad and my Mum had better access to fresh vegetables. But stories of dried eggs and soups made from bone were common place stories from aunts and uncles at family Christmases.
I mention this because there was an entertaining telly programme on last night - The Bad Food Guide (inevitably it was on BBC 2). It showed the food people ate during and post war and the menus and standards of food people accepted. Food was poor, service worse and of course us uncomplaining Brits we accepted it. We even had something called the British Restaurant which was affectively school dinners for adults. These started during the war and were "popular" becuase you didn't use those precious ration tokens. They continued after the war as people knew no better. Indeed so bad were things that we had to eat Whale and Snoek and tails of some Aussie animal (hope I've got that right)
In to the fray stepped Raymond Postgate (yes his son was Oliver who did such classics as the Clangers and Noggin the Nog) who wrote articles criticising the caterers and set up the Good Food Club where anybody could write in with suggestions of decent places to eat. In 1951 he published the first Good Food Guide with over 500 recommendations marking a new era for British catering.
It seems in Britain it wasn't the professionals who led the cultural revolution but the talented amateur (ever it was thus!) like George Perry-Smith at the Hole in the Wall Bath.
The original Good Food Guide itself was terribly sexist I suspect a number of the bright sassy women who read this blog will be horrified by some of his suggestions. But that doesn't mean Postgate wasn't well intentioned and standards/attitudes today will seem equally outmodish in 50 years time.
Of course everything didn't become alright over night and of course you can still go out and eat rubbish food, but you can do that anywhere. What is important is that I know I can get a good meal virtually anywhere. Today a pub like the Miner's Arms in Eyam can have a bread pudding to die for.
The programme itself was a fascinating piece of social history.
One of the things we don't appreciate was how devastated Britain was after the War. Yes the Marshall Plan helped but I don't think people realise the impact the war left on Britain and long the effects were felt.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Stereotypes
Well it's England v Sweden today in some football match.
Its ok CP I'm not going to waffle on about footy. What I found curious was a story in one of the UK "newspapers" headlined "is Sweden the most boring country in the World". I think ever since Sven Goran Eriksson became England Football manager we've had this view that all Swedes are boring - oh well it may be due to the high suicide rate as well. Our other stereotype of the Swedes is that all are blonde and gorgeous.
The truth is we know very little of the Swedes. Ok sits and thinks Prime Minister? Nope there was the one who got assassinated but nope don't know the current one. I know they are Consitutional Monarchy but who the Monarch is ..... uh nope. Famous Swedes? Sven, a whole bunch of tennis players, Ulrika Jonsson and Henrik Larsen oh and Abba and the Cardigans. Oh alright Ingemar Stenmark and Carolina Kluft. To be fair I could add a few crime writers to the list.....
I suspect that that ignorance isn't unique but we have this view of Sweden ingrained in our mind.
The same is true of other countries. France rude, Germany? efficient, nick the pool side chairs with towels. Americans? loud and arrogant. And I daresay us English are a bunch of lager lout football hooligans.
Of course I happen to know the French President (Chirac), the German PM (Angela Merkel) and the president of the USA (Dubya) although in the later case I wish I hadn't.
I don't know about you but I find it strangley sad that I know all about the antics of OJ Simpson but don't know the name of Swedish Prime Minister. Why was the OJ trial news in the UK for goodness sake?
Of course all of this is probably untrue but the stereotypes will keep going on fueled by the tabloid press and I guess the same is true in other countries.
You would have thought travel would have broadened our minds but apparently not. It's sort of heart warming to hear footy fans say our nice and friendly the Germans have been. Although I wonder if it that'll remain if we go out on penalties AGAIN!! And I wonder if it'll remembered in six months anyway.
Nathalie it may depress you to know that the stereotype of your average Swede is someone who is dull, beautiful and always having sex. It could be worse, if you are English you are a pot bellied, beer drinking Football thug.
oh for info (and yes the only Swedish PM I could remember was the one that got shot Olof Palme).
Swedish PM - Goran Persson
King of Sweden - His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf
Its ok CP I'm not going to waffle on about footy. What I found curious was a story in one of the UK "newspapers" headlined "is Sweden the most boring country in the World". I think ever since Sven Goran Eriksson became England Football manager we've had this view that all Swedes are boring - oh well it may be due to the high suicide rate as well. Our other stereotype of the Swedes is that all are blonde and gorgeous.
The truth is we know very little of the Swedes. Ok sits and thinks Prime Minister? Nope there was the one who got assassinated but nope don't know the current one. I know they are Consitutional Monarchy but who the Monarch is ..... uh nope. Famous Swedes? Sven, a whole bunch of tennis players, Ulrika Jonsson and Henrik Larsen oh and Abba and the Cardigans. Oh alright Ingemar Stenmark and Carolina Kluft. To be fair I could add a few crime writers to the list.....
I suspect that that ignorance isn't unique but we have this view of Sweden ingrained in our mind.
The same is true of other countries. France rude, Germany? efficient, nick the pool side chairs with towels. Americans? loud and arrogant. And I daresay us English are a bunch of lager lout football hooligans.
Of course I happen to know the French President (Chirac), the German PM (Angela Merkel) and the president of the USA (Dubya) although in the later case I wish I hadn't.
I don't know about you but I find it strangley sad that I know all about the antics of OJ Simpson but don't know the name of Swedish Prime Minister. Why was the OJ trial news in the UK for goodness sake?
Of course all of this is probably untrue but the stereotypes will keep going on fueled by the tabloid press and I guess the same is true in other countries.
You would have thought travel would have broadened our minds but apparently not. It's sort of heart warming to hear footy fans say our nice and friendly the Germans have been. Although I wonder if it that'll remain if we go out on penalties AGAIN!! And I wonder if it'll remembered in six months anyway.
Nathalie it may depress you to know that the stereotype of your average Swede is someone who is dull, beautiful and always having sex. It could be worse, if you are English you are a pot bellied, beer drinking Football thug.
oh for info (and yes the only Swedish PM I could remember was the one that got shot Olof Palme).
Swedish PM - Goran Persson
King of Sweden - His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf
Monday, June 19, 2006
Whaling
I note with sadness that the International Whaling commision have backed a motion to overturn a moritorum on Whaling. Of course this doesn't mean an immediate return to Whaling but it does set a precedent and shows a worry trend.
Now it might seem a bit hypocritical for a meat-eater to oppose this, for instance I'll eat a cow, a pig, a lamb (ah sweet - can I have mint suace with that) or poultry. And of course I will eat duck (but not mallard - go figure). However in this instance I think that the killing is wrong. Firsly there is the issue of sustainability, we breed cows, sheep etc we don't whales and secondly we don't know how intelligent Whales are. They appear to have a very complex language as do Dolphins.
You would have hoped by now we might have evolved enough to stop killing everything because we can and would be mature enough to want to try and understand and perhaps communicate with these creatures if that is at all possible.
Now it might seem a bit hypocritical for a meat-eater to oppose this, for instance I'll eat a cow, a pig, a lamb (ah sweet - can I have mint suace with that) or poultry. And of course I will eat duck (but not mallard - go figure). However in this instance I think that the killing is wrong. Firsly there is the issue of sustainability, we breed cows, sheep etc we don't whales and secondly we don't know how intelligent Whales are. They appear to have a very complex language as do Dolphins.
You would have hoped by now we might have evolved enough to stop killing everything because we can and would be mature enough to want to try and understand and perhaps communicate with these creatures if that is at all possible.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Baby Birds and an Emperor
Well I didn't get up early. I was really tired last time and slept from 10 to 6:20. I could have got up and gone over the Forest but just turned over.
Did go down to Rye Meads after lunch.
Well lifer!! Emperor Dragonfly!! Thing was huge had the diagnostic black stripe down the back.
Off to Draper Hide, my those Coots and Pochard have grown. Also Baby Herons!! And a male Ruddy Duck
There didn't seem many Tits about but lots of Reed and Sedge Warblers and Common Whitethroats singing.
From the hide.
The Terns seem to be doing very well. There are young birds on the rafts.
Just infront of the Tern hide were two Mallard families.
All very nice. I managed to miss the Kingfisher's today (they were in the hole apparently) but have fledged one brood and are looking for a second.
Saw these two....
Common Blue I think looking at the tail.
Blue Tailed Damselfly.
Amazing how close you can get to these Damsel's. The bins won't focus that close. Ooh pentax papilo's focus to 50cm - uuuuuummmmmm.
I had seen quite a few Black Tailed Skippers (well that's what I think they are). These two had other things on their mind.
As I got back to the centre I was serenaded by a Song Thrush.
Did go down to Rye Meads after lunch.
Well lifer!! Emperor Dragonfly!! Thing was huge had the diagnostic black stripe down the back.
Off to Draper Hide, my those Coots and Pochard have grown. Also Baby Herons!! And a male Ruddy Duck
There didn't seem many Tits about but lots of Reed and Sedge Warblers and Common Whitethroats singing.
From the hide.
The Terns seem to be doing very well. There are young birds on the rafts.
Just infront of the Tern hide were two Mallard families.
All very nice. I managed to miss the Kingfisher's today (they were in the hole apparently) but have fledged one brood and are looking for a second.
Saw these two....
Common Blue I think looking at the tail.
Blue Tailed Damselfly.
Amazing how close you can get to these Damsel's. The bins won't focus that close. Ooh pentax papilo's focus to 50cm - uuuuuummmmmm.
I had seen quite a few Black Tailed Skippers (well that's what I think they are). These two had other things on their mind.
As I got back to the centre I was serenaded by a Song Thrush.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
There be Dragons.
Dave - Do you want to go and see a Scops Owl.
Me - Uh No.
Dave - think about it
Me - Uh No.
Dave - you aren't keen are you!!
I woke this morning to find my left eye lid swollen. Looked like I had been in a boxing match! Took an antihistemine and the swelling went down. Bloody insects!! So off to Wicken Fen to boost my dragonfly list. Ok known species 2! Banded Damselfly and Blue Tailed Damselfly.
It was a lovely morning.
Whoosh whoosh, ah this Dragonfly lark is going to be fun. So I've seen Common Whitethroat, lots of Reed Warblers and Sedge Warblers, Reed Buntings, loads of Hirundines when what's that....
Uhm ok its a Dragonfly!! Its one of those fat ones.... uhm Darter or Chaser female Black-tailed Skimmer (later I found they were about!!).
Ooh and what's this? Ok the camera is pushing it here. The abdominal segments are Blue and the thorax bit is a mix of Green and Black so Hairy Dragonfly?
So ever onwards and I came back towards the visitors centre and Dragonfly heaven.
Ther were lots of those "identical" little Blue Damselflies... and lots of these Four Spotted Chaser's.
Anyway those "identical" blue damselflies
Here we go Azure Damselfly
but hang on this one is different. I think we have here a Variable Damselfy.
I also "reacquainted" myself with Blue Tailed Damselfly and Red-eyed Damselfly.
oh and more of our old friend
Wonderful flyers and they were having a ding dong aerial with a Hairy Dragonfly. Whilst just standing watching I was aware that there were Chiffchaff about and just how many Reed and Sedge I was seeing.
So where to now? Headed to RSPB headquarters.
The Lodge, Victorian Tudor.
The hide over looks a feeding station with a couple of ponds (our friend 4 spot again). This used to be brilliant for Marsh Tit but I miss them these days.
Not a bird!
I shouldn't be here.
oh go on, if you insist!
There were lots of Juveniles about including Goldcrest. Oh and Spotted Flycatcher's were in evidence which I was pleased to see.
The pond infront of the lodge threw up a pair of Azure Damselflies.
Now I know its not great but there are two species here and I'm thinking Common Blue.
Super day. I think I extended my "list" from 2 to 9!!
No doubt Diane will tell me I've got it all wrong.
Me - Uh No.
Dave - think about it
Me - Uh No.
Dave - you aren't keen are you!!
I woke this morning to find my left eye lid swollen. Looked like I had been in a boxing match! Took an antihistemine and the swelling went down. Bloody insects!! So off to Wicken Fen to boost my dragonfly list. Ok known species 2! Banded Damselfly and Blue Tailed Damselfly.
It was a lovely morning.
Whoosh whoosh, ah this Dragonfly lark is going to be fun. So I've seen Common Whitethroat, lots of Reed Warblers and Sedge Warblers, Reed Buntings, loads of Hirundines when what's that....
Uhm ok its a Dragonfly!! Its one of those fat ones.... uhm Darter or Chaser female Black-tailed Skimmer (later I found they were about!!).
Ooh and what's this? Ok the camera is pushing it here. The abdominal segments are Blue and the thorax bit is a mix of Green and Black so Hairy Dragonfly?
So ever onwards and I came back towards the visitors centre and Dragonfly heaven.
Ther were lots of those "identical" little Blue Damselflies... and lots of these Four Spotted Chaser's.
Anyway those "identical" blue damselflies
Here we go Azure Damselfly
but hang on this one is different. I think we have here a Variable Damselfy.
I also "reacquainted" myself with Blue Tailed Damselfly and Red-eyed Damselfly.
oh and more of our old friend
Wonderful flyers and they were having a ding dong aerial with a Hairy Dragonfly. Whilst just standing watching I was aware that there were Chiffchaff about and just how many Reed and Sedge I was seeing.
So where to now? Headed to RSPB headquarters.
The Lodge, Victorian Tudor.
The hide over looks a feeding station with a couple of ponds (our friend 4 spot again). This used to be brilliant for Marsh Tit but I miss them these days.
Not a bird!
I shouldn't be here.
oh go on, if you insist!
There were lots of Juveniles about including Goldcrest. Oh and Spotted Flycatcher's were in evidence which I was pleased to see.
The pond infront of the lodge threw up a pair of Azure Damselflies.
Now I know its not great but there are two species here and I'm thinking Common Blue.
Super day. I think I extended my "list" from 2 to 9!!
No doubt Diane will tell me I've got it all wrong.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Happy 18th Nathalie
I've just read that today is Nathalie's 18th birthday. I feel SO old!!
Hope you have a super day Nathalie
Hope you have a super day Nathalie
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