good afternoon all
4.5 today
Lots of birds about here just now
on the way home from Mum's yesterday we noticed a flock of gulls following a ploughing tractor, a big flock of grey geese in a field where there had been potatoes harvested and a flock of about 100 swans browsing amongst the stubble a couple of fields further over. Loch Eye is nearby and it's an SSI.
Fortunately we haven't had as many bird strike power cuts so far this year
The local Hydro board (power company
) started putting wind spinners on some of the power lines across noted bird flight paths last year, they look like small, flat sheets of plastic with a fluorescent patch on one side and a bit of that shiny hologram pattern on the other, they are on a sort of swivel and spin in the wind, seems to work
a quiet day sorting out kitchen stuff, I think plastic storage boxes breed when we're not looking
do a bit of knitting, a bit of painting, a bit of cooking and there you have my day
Hope your day is treating you well
@gennepher - cute hedgehog, all curled up
and an interesting one for today, a watchful observer over a serene Santa
and I see the cunning Xmas fence is coming on by leaps and bounds
@dunelm - very good fluid foliage and I like your fisherman, is he of the ilk that uses a cormorant too? we had a visiting cormorant down by the harbour last year
@Muddy Cyclist - sounds like you have a full creative program for today
@Krystyna23040 - glad Archie is progressing so well
@jjraak - enjoyed the pictures, good travel in good company
art bits -
no 1 - one of my quick(ish) tree pencil sketches
no 2 -
memory of an uphill walk on a sunny day a couple of years ago