Pinch and a punch for the first of the month!
February is the 'nearly there' month, not quite spring but getting there. It is the oddly satisfying month (for me anyway) in that it perfectly aligns with March, starting on the same day of the week. Nice and neat on a wall chart calendar.
Not too much on the birding front unfortunately so you will have to make do with the Claddach report - 2 snipe spooked from their cover, one song thrush by the beach, 3 ravens out towards the gullies, 4 hooded crows on the wall above the house, a wren singing, on the beach itself a single great black-back, single herring gull, and single common gull each flew overhead.
I have started to feed the sheep expecting triplets over the weekend, so naturally the rest of the flock are lined up at the fence looking very unimpressed to be left out! There is still plenty of grass but as one of my favourite weather expressions will warn you - "winter always has a sting in its tail", so best no get too complacent!
No comments:
Post a Comment