What have you seen

Middle Spotted Woodpecker, wow. 🙂🙂🙂

WOW indeed! Lucky RK.

We had a clear sky last night, and on our last walk out, just after 10:00, I caught sight of 10 shooting stars, most, but not all, travelling in a NW direction. Wonder if I will see any tonight?

Our Rowan tree is about 12 feet high by 8 feet wide and is thick with berries (or was), the most berries we have seen for years. About two weeks ago the blackbirds started feeding on the berries, up to about 12 at a time with more in the trees around it. Yesterday the mistle thrushes arrived. So far only about six but, if similar to previous years, that number should double. Not bad for an urban garden.

Addition to the above post, there's a fieldfare on the tree at this very moment.

Correction, closer look, it's a redwing.

Geminids? I had a look, just locally ,but didn’t see any, and it was far too cold to stay out for long 😱

Yes, Geminids. I had a quick look but obviously not for long enough as I missed them.

Now got just about a full set, blackbirds, mistle thrushes, redwings, fieldfares and song thrushes. The rate they're stripping the tree there'll be nothing left in a couple of days. Sat here watching them and getting nothing else done!

Foxes. They walk the streets in West London, and my daughter there has them lying out on her tiny scrap of artificial grass lawn.

But here in an untamed valley,, on the edge of wild moorland and woodland,  we had the very first fox for about ten years today near the house. We don’t put food out for them in the way towns people do, so he went away across the river to see if Mary had locked her chickens away safely.

What’s the opposite of re wilding which has happened in the 40 years  we have lived out here? Even the foxes have gone.