wood anenomes

the first wood anemones are appearing by the stream between Latchley and Luckett about three weeks earlier than last year (see link). Along with plastic bottles, plastic bags, polystyrene containers and any other garbage worth chucking out of your car.

also singing yesterday

the sparrow and the blue tit, more like drowning today than singing.

simon and the wolf

two events took place last night, a concert of violin, cello and singing in the Old School by Sarah Trickey and Simon Wallfisch, and the lunar eclipse; which of these was more beautiful or spectacular is hard to say but they reflected well on one another and we heard the music of the spheres.

occasional visitors

wrens are normally seen on the ground but the male wren is beginning to mark out his territory by singing from a vantage point. The male bullfinch is a very infrequent visitor probably because they were much persecuted for the damage they do to fruit trees.

our home

there is nothing better than sprawling out in front of a nice warm fire after a hard day eating and walking

unidentified flying object

we saw this handsome bird gliding in front of us this morning for several hundred yards. I am not sure what it was, it might be a very pale buzzard but it did not act or fly like a buzzard, but more like an owl and paused briefly to attack something in the grass verge before flying on. It seemed completely unconcerned by our presence which is most un-buzzard like. It was not a juvenile herring gull.