One poor chick that didn't make it, must of got pushed out of the nest and landed on our garden table.

Roe Deer in the snow

Southern Hawker in Flight

Springwatch

One of my photos made it on the BBC Springwatch website

Dark-edged Bee-fly in the garden just now. They're taking full advantage of the Sun, Bluebells and Forget-me-nots being out!

Taken on Sunday. I have refused to mow the lawn whilst the dandelions are attracting such amazing species.

Boot likes to keep an eye on the Springwatch webcams, here watching baby Jackdaws in their nest.

Some stuff I've picked up of late. All sorts of daft old junk, with tracks from Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Spain etc..

All from OG vinyl of course.

www.mixcloud.com/pencilface/springwatch-mix/

Tracklist:

INTRO

1. SOLID GOLD CADILLAC - lady howerd (RCA LP)

2. MARTIN CIRCUS - tomahawk (Pop Music LP)

3. EQUALS - granny granny (President LP)

4. STIX AND STONES - rouge plant blues (Odeon 45)

5. BOB SEGER - lonely man (Capitol 45)

6. BOBBY FRANKLIN'S INSANITY - bring it on down to me (Thomas 45)

7. ALIVE N KICKIN - junction creek (USA, Roulette LP)

8. PEOPLE - livin it up (Paramount 45)

9. NORA BUMBIERE - pauper's dance (Melodiya LP)

10. TRAFFIC SOUND - you got to be sure! (SonoRadio 45)

11. ARIEL SILBER - ???? (*Israeli LP*)

12. GRUPO DE EXPERIMENTACION SONORA - cuba va! (Areito LP)

13. RAUL SEIXAS - sociedade alternativa (Philips LP)

14. LA QUINTA FACCIA - strano uomo (Euro International 45)

15. HAZY OSTERWALD SEXTET - carascho (Mabel LP)

16. 3 HUREL - doner dunya (Diskotaur 45)

17. *various Turkish 45 intros*

18. SEYHAN KARABAY - new kaldi (Sahiler 45)

19. VIBES -night court (Not Not Fun 45)

20. JEAN CLAUDE FOHRENBACH - hong kong virus (Music Parade LP)

21. MANFRED KRUG - wenn's draussen grun wird (Amiga LP)

22. FREE DESIGN - bubbles (Project 3 45)

23. OS BRAZOES - pega a voga cabeludo (RGE LP)

24. LUIZA MARIA - nao corra atras do sol (Som Livre LP)

25. ALEPH - injection (AZ 45)

26. MONIQUE THUBERT - avec les oreilles (Barclay 45)

27. NAI BONNET - jelly belly (Karate 45)

28. BIG JAY McNEELY - psycho serenade (Swingin 45)

29. THE IDEALS - gorilla (Cortland 45)

30. RAY ELLIS - the sheik (RCA 45)

31. THE SPARKLES -the hip (Hickory 45)

32. ORQUESTRA SOM LIVRE - agora (Som Livre LP)

33. EBERHARD SCHOENER - ketjak rock (Harvest LP)

34. ALEXANDER GRADSKY - on st john's night (Melodiya LP)

35. TRIUMVIRAT - flashback (Harvest LP)

36. THE BBC - upside down (Mega 45)

37. PEPPER TREE - workin (Capitol 45)

38. VERONIKA FISCHER - und wer bist du (Amiga LP)

39. CHRIS HODGE - supersoul (Apple 45)

38. BLACK FIRE - come on and do it (RCA 45)

39. NEIL CHRISTIAN - she's got the power (Vogue 45)

40. J. BASTOS - alice (Bellaphon 45)

41. MESSENGERS - in the jungle (Rare Earth 45)

42. HOLLINS AND STARR - digress (Ovation LP)

i was delighted to find out that my photo was on the springwatch website :-)

Mouse decided to eat the birds food, opportunistic feeder!

Simply stunning, much smaller than its cousin the elephant hawk-moth!

The woodpecker calls as he arrives and in between mouthfuls. I had my camera ready so managed to get better photos through the glass today.

Wigston, Leicester, UK

Poor little one...so much rain and needs to shelter.

spring is here

Taken ages to work out why. The BBC Web team have muffed up on a link:

At the bottom of the page there is a bit about Raft spiders. The raft spider shot is one of mine. But the link goes to my Flickr stream, and not their 'faves' or 'Spider album' if they have one.... You can scroll left and right from that image, so you can look at anything you like on my stream. Click on it and Flickr opens... It's great that I'm getting thousands of hits showing as 'No referrer' as it's coming through the BBC's LAN firewalls from the wrong side... S'pose I better let them know.

I might have to point out that the next picture down (which has nothing to do with me) and is also meant to be about Raft spiders, is linked to shots that are mostly of Nursery Web Spiders. . :@D

The 'BBC' logo is a registered trademark of the 'British Broadcasting Corporation'.

A lot of interest in the television this evening.

springwatch 2009

Long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. 31 March 2018. Ealing, London, England, UK.

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