Home alone

The Safari was at home longer than anticipated today. We did our chores then decided to nip off out. That's when we discovered our car and house keys were on their way to uncharted territory (Leeds) in Wifey's bag...oops.

Not much doing at Base Camp, a few Swallows went over and the 'flock' contained two Swifts too.

Later all the gulls in the distance were seen circling in a large tight group, then those on the depot roof a lot nearer did the same - a raptor was on the move! The next group of gulls to panic was those on the offices next door - a Buzzard came gliding past at a low height, if only we'd grabbed the cam era and not the bins. Having said that had we been holding the camera the raptor would have been an Osprey at ridiculous altitude!

Yesterday's footy was played in blistering sunshine. A new stand under construction in the far left corner will complete the stadium, just in time for our promotion back to the Premiership ;)

Whilst doing a bit of log sawing we came across this tiny black fungus erupting from under the bark of a dead Elm branch. We have trouble identifying fungi unless they are boxed, wrapped and labelled on the shelf in the shop!


Blistering sunshine returned in the afternoon and we spend a pleasant hour or so hacking away at the garden, dead-heading the roses, getting torn to shreds by the Loganberry and battling our way througgh the Small Leaved Elm to be able to get to the compost bins, along with sawing a couple more logs. All this will be impossible once the doc gets his scalpel out on the old knackered hand.

With one ear and one eye on the sky we saw another two individual Swifts racing southwards, a few more Swallows and four Curlews heading towards the coast. The gulls did their reverse 'domino' effect again but this time we didn't pick up the culprit - probably because we had both bins and camera to hand this time.

Where to next? Weather permitting the mothy will go on again tonight and there should be a safari somewhere interesting tomorrow.
In the meantime let us know who's heading for the coast in your outback.