Calne (Saturday 19th September 2020)

The presence of these two relaxed pigeons near the top of the church pretty much rules out any chance of the peregrine falcon being in the vicinity. One of them was having a preen while the one on the left had a seed in its bill. Above them a number of starlings were also sunning themselves in leisurely fashion.
From the ground I couldn't tell what this blur of feathers was and had to set the zoom at its maximum 2000mm (equivalent) to make out what they were and get a shot.
The swan was on The Wharf again, but the pictures were too similar to the previous batch - same stretch of water, same backdrop or lack of backdrop, same angle of view from the path above it - to blip, so the possibility of regularly using the swan as a Smokey blip substitute is beginning to fade (see Extra).

So much clearer in Large (Full Screen) view

L.
19.9.2020 (1516 hr)

Blip #3302 (#3051 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2020 #154/266 + #060/100 Extras
Day #3830 (779 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2447 (#2288 + 159 in archived blips)

Calne series
Birds series

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Ike and Tina Turner - Somebody (somewhere) needs you (1965)
I bought this on a 7" promo single for two bob at Walsall Market in 1966, but I had no idea until this week, when I found a blog about it, that it had a Motown connection.
It first came out on the US Loma label in 1965 as Somebody Needs You, written by Frank Wilson and published by Jobete (the Motown publishing house). Frank Wilson was based in Los Angeles and he and Marc Gordon were in charge of a lot of Motown's West Coast activities in the studios there. By the time it came out in the UK (on the Warner Bros label) the title had changed and Marc Gordon had been added to the composer credit. It was described as an IkeCo production (Ike Turner) though Frank Wilson actually produced it and Ike Turner doesn't play on it and was not involved in any way with the recording.
The band track was newly created, probably in Detroit, but later appeared on subsequent versions of the song and on two or three new Northern Soul sides (Darrell Banks, Ty Karim, Larry Atkins, Herb and Doris etc.) over the next three years.
The chorus is not the Ikettes but probably the Blossoms or a close variation thereof. And it's great! I haven't owned the single in years but have it on an album called Finger Poppin' that collects their material for Warner/Loma.

One year ago:
Fill The Frame