drying off

after a refreshing dip there's nothing quite like a good shake of the feathers with one's mates. Three starlings at the bath house.

bird watch afternoon

it has been a busy afternoon with flocks of starlings, wood pigeons, collared doves, sparrows, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks, chaffinches, a cock pheasant, robins, blackbirds, rooks, jackdaws and this shy little coal tit.

puzzle tree

this is an image from the tangled woods, it is not quite what it seems.

stonechat

a stonechat (?) singing away, probably come down from Kit Hill for the winter. The warbling is very liquid and melodic.

Primrose

as my reference book says, the first primroses start to bloom in March ...., this looks like the bird's eye primrose, doomed to "die unmarried"

Tavistock

the road up to Kit Hill, with Tavistock and the gaunt hills of Dartmoor in the background, bathed in the rose pink evening light.