It was nice to see a pair of goldfinches on the sunflower seeds on Thursday. I then went away for a couple of days and found very little reduction in the amount of food taken from any of the hanging feeders. The long tailed tits have been active on the feeder in the front garden but the main beneficiary of my largesse seems to be a very fat wood pigeon who dominates the ground feeder.
The arable fields between Ley Hill and Latimer have been harvested over the last couple of days. This morning I saw a group of yellowhammers in the middle of the road by a field gate. From the look of things they were eating spilled grain. Instead of flying into the hedgerow they flew away from me along the road at windscreen height. I haven't seen much else recently apart from a distant glimpse of a partridge and the occasional red kite.
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