Well I put the mockers on it by saying winter is on its way last blog. A small amount of snow last night but temperatures went down to minus ten & has been below zero all day. Must admit this is a cracking day with the weak sun showing off the snow on the hills & trees, plus of course (my usual enjoyment) loads of birds & animals about.
This first shot shows the view from the house across towards the farm, the black spots are in fact Geese who have an uncanny knack of wakening me predawn as they fly over the house, always the same route, so these fields must be in a line from their overnight roost.
This is the drive up to our house that as the only permanent resident still fit enough to clear it, I tend to clear sufficiently that an emergency vehicle can reach us, because, as you can see, it is fairly steep.
This is my bird feeding station, which as you can see the Red Squirrel uses a fair bit, the box to the right of the squirrel is its box full of peanuts & can be funny when they go in it as sometimes all you can see it’s tail hanging out. Below the squirrel is a peanut feeder, Black Sunflower seed holder & 3 Niger feeders. The log on which the squirrel is sitting is hollowed out & filled with a scoop of seeds daily. Up the tree on the left is an apple holder which we can spike an apple to for just a bit of variety to the birds diet. The v shaped stand on the Silver Birch is for the jar of Peanut Butter that they consume in three days. To the right of that you can see part of my hide that I sit & photograph the wildlife in. Very often the birds will sit on the roof wile I am inside waiting their turn on the Peanut Butter.
Print about 2″ long
Again print just over 2″
This set a big bigger at 3″.
So the last 3 shots I would like you to guess what animal these footprints are from & I will try & remember to give you the answers in the next blog, or you could send me your answers.