My word I love autumn, everything is on the change or the move. The
trees and plants are starting to shut down for the winter, displaying
the myriad of browns and golds. The Ash, always the last inleaf and
always the last to lose them still sways in the breeze. The Walnut that
i planted two years ago is showing no signs of shutting down, still in
full leaf, standing guard to the entrance of our house.
The Pink Foot Geese arrived around two weeks ago with an estimated
70,000 coming in from the Wash and so too the wonderful Whooper Swans. I
wrote last year that they use our chimney as a point of reference to
navigate to feeding grounds in the Bay. They are doing the same this
year too, a skein flew over yesterday at about 30 feet, 12 in all with
there whistling sounds as air is pushed out of there lungs as they fly.
Roe deer are showing themselves too, i have spotted around 15 over
the past month, narrowly missing a Doe as she leapt a hedge 20 yards in
front of my car and ran down the road before gracefully leaping the
hedge on the other side of the road and disappearing into the woods.
Sparrow hawk is still cruising the hedgerows with its silent rigid
flight, you can tell when it's around all other bird life shuts up and
legs it for cover until the threat is passed. I was working on a riven
Oak gate on Sunday and spotted a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 10 yards away
on a Willow, the beautiful black, white and red of the bird was
prominent in the winter Sun.
Well we are now officially in winter mode, another season that i enjoy immensely.
