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Coal Tit and Buzzards

I was thinking at the weekend that I hadn't seen a coal tit in the garden for a long time so yesterday one decided to remind me that they were still around with a brief visit to the feeders.

Today I had decided that I was getting a bit flabby and, with the winter weather, had been taking shorter walks. What was striking was the buzzard that seemed to be following me around. I saw it over Cowcroft wood as I crossed the fields from Bottom Lane to Tylers Hill. I saw it again over White End Park as I followed the path beside the claypits and a third time as I made my way back it flew from over Cowcroft Wood across the fields towards Waterside.

A pair of kites were busy over the Botley end of Tylers Hill Road and I did wonder if they were nesting in one of the tall trees flanking the gardens and paddocks around there.

At the back of Meadhams Farm a muntjac stopped and looked at me and then quietly walked away without any fuss or sign of panic. It makes a change to get a chance to study one rather than get a quick glimpse in the headlights.

In the woods the bluebell leaves are starting to emerge and at the edge of the claypit there are clumps of daffodils. 



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