The conversion of the new house necessitates the sale of the current abode, the aim is to instigate sale in the spring and have therefore about 10 weeks to prepare. A lot of de-cluttering is needed - Life Laundry as my sister calls it - and also sprucing up and that is what I have busied myself with this morning... painting of doors with little windows in them, fiddly work but quite therapeutic I find. Just as well as there is quite a bit to do!
Whilst having my breakfast sitting at the dining table i had the annual visitation of Long-Tailed Tits, only ever seen them about four times, only ever once in a year and normally there are around half a dozen of them picking at branches of the bushes outside the back door. They are beautiful little things and thrill me each time they visit. Birds around here are in desperately short supply and variety, dominated I guess by gulls as we are so close to the sea. There are starlings, crows, blue tits and a robin. But that's it and is another very good reason to move as the field has a much greater variety and that I've gleaned during fairly short visits over the past few months.. Bullfinches, partridges, jays and loads of goldfinches and I also saw a treecreeper which I've only see a couple of times in my life previously. Going to need binoculars to go with my new bird identification book!!!
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| Long-tailed tits on the acer tree. Apologies for poor photos!! |
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