Ancient Oak Woods

Elizabeth and I had a lovely walk through the woods here today. I was having so much fun taking photographs of absolutely everything that I completey lost track of the time. It was nearly 3pm when I realised I'd totally forgotten about having lunch. Elizabeth has only been here for a week and has lost nearly half a stone already! I think I need a little work on my hosting skills. We saw a quite a few different fungi in the woods but I guess officially they are not actually in my garden so I've only included the one photo in my blog today. The Red Admirals have finally arrived, seems a lot later this year than usual. Oh I managed to get a snapshot of whitear last night. They don't mind my watching them feeding but as soon as the camera goes off they scamper off and don't return for hours.

Redpoles, another first.

Another first for the garden. REDPOLES!

I was in the lounge skipping along to one of my exercise dvd's when I decided to grab a quick drink of water. As I put the tap on I looked out the window and noticed two little birds feeding in the grass. I couldn't get a clear view so I ran upstairs and realised they were 2 little redpoles. I quickly grabbed my camera but just as I focused they flew off. Disappointed that I didn't get a decent photo I put my dvd on pause and sat by the back window for a further 3 hours hoping they would come back, but alas they didn't. My only record of their visit is this blur of an image. If you look closely you can just about make out the red cap in the the blur.