Another Jones van what.........

Oh yes indeedy there is another Jones the Butcher van, this one is at the Bressingham collection in there Dads Army area. If you are into Dads Army and want a bit of nostalgia get yourself there its great, old scripts, where the scenes were shot and episodes running through the day.

Onto the van this one was used in the film version or so the blurb says.

This Dads Army link takes us onto a story I was told last weekend about the last person to be executed at the Tower of London the german spy Joseph Jacobs. He landed near Ramsey in Cambridgeshire breaking an ankle in the process, attracted the attention of two farm workers who got in touch with the Home Guard and was taken into custody by a Private Godfrey, or so the story goes anyway.

Looking for Corn Buntings

As you do, dont you!!! There's a survey this year in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire trying to find out more about one our farmland birds the Corn Bunting, its like a pumped up Skylark but dont let them hear you say that. Lovely birds they are and like so many not as many about as there used to be. So the survey is looking at selected map squares.

 I got in late on this but got a square, I know a few places in this area where I can see them but another might be nice. The square lies Southish of the River Kennett where it forms part of the border between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Did I see or hear any Corn Bunting, no. But I did get lovely views of a Grey Wagtail family feeding and foraging under a road bridge.

A bit of a mixed up square really, farmland, major roads, large farm reservoir and a commercial tip. Still did hear Nightingale, and see as well Yellowhammer, Skylark, Lapwing, Oystercatcher and Little Owl amongst other birds.

The tip reminded me once again that nature cannot stand empty space and sure enough in all the areas where disturbance of the soil was negligible plants were growing, flowering away amid the foreloaders, bulldozers and lorries.