Winter evening

The bottom image is a female blackbird filling up on Yew berries for the long winters night and the top one is taken against the late winter sun

Grey partridge

Taken today in the Sandon area, I have seen a very healthy population of these in recent weeks, let us hope that they evade the guns....................

Merlin

A trip to the Sandon area this afternoon brought the bonus of a merlin but too far off for a picture but great to see nonetheless. Also observed buzzard catching a corn bunting and red kites. A flock of 100 fieldfares also passed by