The usual riverside walk today produced a leucistic female Mallard trying to protect two tiny young from an attack by a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a juvenile Moorhen on the pond. The Great Spotted Woodpecker nest at the corner of the park was all quiet, suggesting that the brood has fledged.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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