Clear the Runway

'Okay okay coming into land now... clear the runway!'

'No NOW!' 

#1 daughter has taken off for Cuba with a lift to Gatwick from here in the early hours. Winston the cat is now ensconced in a lovely cattery and very fortuitously it is near Slimbridge. Hopefully the landing in Cuba will have been as successful.

I seem to be not to be able to go anywhere without people knowing me in birding areas and as I was quietly pondering a moorhen, three chirpy little faces popped up over a gate. Guys from the owling wall who were very kind to point me in the direction of further wildlife round here. Great! Sometimes it's not what you know ......