Caught red handed pinching crab apples
It’s been a busy year for Fieldfares. We’ve had flocks of 30-50 birds, chack-chacking around the hedgerows and squabbling over fruit in our neighbour’s crab apple tree.
It’s been a busy year for Fieldfares. We’ve had flocks of 30-50 birds, chack-chacking around the hedgerows and squabbling over fruit in our neighbour’s crab apple tree.
Now here’s an odd question. Are Monkey Puzzles an invasive species colonising the English countryside? Do they self seed or do they need someone to plant them to become established?
Well actually there was a Mottled Umber Moth! Flying around the house after I accidentally let it in when I opened the front door.
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We’re lucky enough to have a field at the end of our garden. And even luckier to have an Egret wandering around it too!
I stopped off at Petersfield Lake on the way to work this week to grab this photo that I’ve been planning to take for a while.
A while ago a beech tree blew over across the footpath on the way up to Linch Down. And a little while later someone came along and kindly chopped it up with a big saw!
Well this little piggy wasn’t invited in for Boxing Day lunch. He looked very pleased to see us as we walked through the yard at Church Farm though I suspect before long he’ll be destined for the table. Still snow on the ground! Oink!
Stunning Boxing Day views from the top of Linch Down. Cold yet brilliant. And we’ve now had snow since the beginning of December. 2010 has been a cold winter for sure. That’s The South Downs Way in the background, not many people up here today.
It’s a white out on the Downs! Not many people up here today, but a great way to walk off Christmas Lunch! To the right of the fence is The South Downs Way, but the view isn’t so great here at the top of Linch Down in the clouds. Happy Christmas y’all.
Nobody’s stirring, not even a mouse because it’s a white Christmas and there’s snow everywhere! Whoo-hoo!