The Big Catch Up?

Not yet. Sorry.


Had a nice wander about Yarner with the Folks today - the weather contrived to keep it quieter than a holiday Sunday had a right to be, which was a bonus. Admittedly, the rain showed up while we were still there, but that's what waterproofs are for. Not overflowing with birds, though some good sightings [and soundings], plus a Roe Deer, which the LBD saw first, to her delight and the deer's discomfiture. It was a measure of our pleasure that even though the rain arrived while we were sat having coffee on the Beech Bench - Tilbury having been provided with a 20-minute chew* - and there were no birds about or moving over at all, we still stayed put. :)



Oh ok, a quick bit of Catch Up:
Last Saturday - the one in October - I bashed the Patch mightily all day, finding no Purple Sandpipers at the Harbour [not ideal conditions, admittedly] - nor any even vaguely interesting-looking gulls. The best I can report was a few flyover Redwing.
I even got out to Cockington, where Treecreeper and Grey Wag were nice, but of course no MTs, farmland birds, or winter thrushes [the latter I was realistically hoping for and their absence was vexing].





[[*The 20-minute chew, named for obvious reasons, only rarely lasts that long - but at least gives us some peace after the food has been eaten and the sticks in reach reduced to splinters. The LBD is a very good girl - well, sometimes - but there's just too many sights and smells outdoors for her to relax, so if she's not occupied she will sooner or sooner find something to bark at.. Little darling. ]]