There is very little activity in the garden at the moment. As always the rowan tree in the front garden has been stripped of berries while I am not looking. However as I walked out of the house yesterday blackbird was posed on a branch with a berry in his beak. If I had had a camera ready it would have been the sort of shot that gets in magazines. A curious sight out walking recently was a badger set where grass seed from the bedding had germinated giving the set a brilliant green doormat in otherwise brown woodland.
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.