We have been hearing an unidentified bird for some time, and yesterday identified it as a missel thrush. Think I may have seen it and husband and son saw it in another part of the wood.
The badgers have been very active in the sawdust pile as they go for grubs that live there. If I need sawdust it is a race between them, me and the weather to get clean dry sawdust at the moment. The beech trees have pretty well all come into leaf now, but noticeably darker in the next wood where they came out earlier, particularly at dusk.
i was shown a splendid book that had been given to a chum
birds of britain, nice book for id and basic behaviour etc
the good bit, there are 20 yrs of comprehensive field notes in the margins re places and dates for hundreds of species
it is place and date led, it covers specific days in specific places listing species and numbers observed
keen amateur twitcher, good data for 20 yrs from late 70's to around 2000 ish and a bit after that
lots of such data would be very useful for birds vs time stats
the rspb bird survey each year has merit, but much like 18th century vicars with a rain gauge, thermometer and notebook is useful for weather patterns and climate trends, this sort of twitcher data could be aggregated to give a realistic view of the birdy situation over time
canary in a coalmine, little birds can tell us a lot.
It looks very Jedi in that picture. Mice are cute, just not in the house. Wood mice are particularly cute, but they still leave and 'interesting' smell behind them.
the 11.2mg version is very 1960's the 2 mg version looks sixties but not in a pro sort of way
i wondered what it would look like if Keith had snapped it, 60's fashion style works for birds at full fat, even if the "neg" is rather pushed
bw and ir biased.
ai and hand tweaked to reduce the high iso(32000) graininess that is inevitable with 2500/s as the shutter speed at F 8 with rather low light, that looks a bit sandpapery
the 2 mg version looks sixties but not in a pro sort of way 
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