Visitors

Another garden breakfast day, the great spotted woodpecker swinging on the bird feeder while an impatient young parakeet squwks noisily in the ash tree.

The last two days have been an endless trail of meetings and motorways. Home last night in time to walk the dog across the fields as the sun was sinking into the low clouds on the horizon.

Chasing rabbits, he disturbed this years first flock of 40 or 50 Brent geese resting overnight on their journey from the Artic tundra. They are early, normally arriving in October. The blackberries are flowering.