Happy New Year !!

Happy new year to everyone. We have been out and about despite the bitterly cold weather, lots of thermals and layers were needed, but so good to get out as the evenings are so long with it being dark at 4pm. We have even put our heating on for the first time this winter ! We do have a stove that we keep stoked up and our downstairs is toasty !

A few pics from last week for you.

Lots of goosanders on our local river at the moment

Hares boxing in the crops

Lapwing and golden plover

Pink-footed Geese on one of our walks. Thousands and thousands of them feeding in the fields. Couldn't get them all in one photo so captured them in groups, the line of them filled the field there were that many. Had a good look and couldn't see a white-front amongst them. 

Tens of thousands of pink-footed geese, an absolute spectacle 

A few redshanks on the local river this morning

Reed Bunting

Robin

Song Thrush with a snail lunch !

Starlings - bit like an Alfred Hitchcock film !

Stonechats enjoying a bit of sun

and a few whooper swans in the fields

A few bits and bobs from camera catch up

 

This weather takes grey to a whole new level ! Distant crossbills in the greyness.

Kestrel in the sun !

Ringtail going through the starlings

Terrifying the starlings !

Stonechats enjoying the sun

The last of the carrots from our garden......they were delicious !

Hazel Catkins, male and female.......spring is just around the corner

I make the wreaths for all my families graves every year with greenery collected from the local forest. Love making them and this year I made them for a few neighbors aswell. The holly rips my hands to shreds !

Christmas dinner - delicious as always !

and Boxing Day dinner.....yummy xx

Simon and our son, Tom, tucking in !