Ere be NO Dragons yet!

With the forecast of a bright and not to objectionable day ahead, I was up and out as the sun rose giving some brilliant early morning light to the county before it woke. On the M5 West it was and there was soon the vista of thick and dull grey clouds over the Venus and Shrewsbury area. So there was a rapid change of plans as I had loaded the vehicle in preparation for a specific task in mind, and it looked like the air temperature was not going to be up to the required for flight.

So, having seen some Grey partridge out the back of Walcott beetled over there for a while, and on route stopped for a quick look at the Mire lake, as there had been reports of Ringed and Little ringed together, a nice comparison. And sure enough there they were all together with a nice Dunlin thrown in for good measure. The planned 10 minutes stop developed into a hour just sitting and watching the antics when A Male Garagney dropped in for a bit of a feed, I was on the phone immediately "this time battery talk time and signal were all in working order" Sadly by the time others arrived it had disappeared. I was having a coffee so I missed its departure.

With the rest of the day promising not to highlight what had gone before I tripped out for a long awaited Corn bunting, which was perched in a dead Oak tree singing or jangling for its life and in the field next to the tree were four Grey Partridge, the target bird for the day.

So in the end a good day and the rain held of nicely, to close the day I was at Venus pools to check on the Norfolk ditch as the air temp was getting up and looking to see if any other species had emerged over night, just a nice Azure male was found eating his lunch and the number of Large reds were around the same as last time, it was then a quick stop of at the river on the way home to check if the Gompher or Club tailed Dragonflies had emerged and the White legged damselflies were out, no Gomphers but a couple of Whited legged damsels were in the nettles resting assuming a recent emergence, another look there is required on a sunny day.

A few pictures grabbed on the day.

Not quite up to date but a lot closer than it was, with plenty more to do, keep watching this space.

Thanks for looking and your comments are always appreciated.

Paul