Lazy day

I'm having the lazy day I'd rather hoped yesterday would be before neighbours decided that the playing of The Last Post after the two minutes' silence was the signal for the clatter and bang of major DIY projects involving big drills and pervasive smells.

The only break in the sloth was my nipping out to buy more bags of bird food. The spadgers were already making major inroads on the suet pellets before the first of the Winter starlings turned up to have a bash at them. All but one of the fat-filled pine cones have been denuded and the titmice and the robin have been hard at work on that one.

Over the road the black-headed gulls are almost permanent fixtures. Yesterday they were joined by five herring gulls. today by two common gulls. Rook and jackdaw numbers are steady and the family of carrion crows are still kicking about — it's pretty much impossible to tell the youngsters from the adults now unless they're all together and you get to see who's in charge. There's usually four or five magpies kicking about, usually I'll see one in the trees by the road and the rest getting up to something or other in the corner of the netball court. Nearly all the woodpigeons have moved on, it isn't often there's more than the odd one or two on the field.

Anyway, here's some pictures from November 2015. I wonder when I'll next be able to visit Martin Mere.

Pintail, Martin Mere, November 2015

Wigeon, Martin Mere, November 2015

Whooper swan and mallards, Martin Mere, November 2015