winter

 

winter, in my website...

"I woke at 7.30 to snow. Snow sugaring the trees,

snow three inches deep. The birds are busy feeding

in the peanut tree, the only tree to bear fruit in

February: pendulous cylinders of peanuts. Blackbird,

robin, sparrow,coal tit, greenfinch, chaffinch, blue tit,

sparrow, great tit (more occasional), long-tailed tits,

great spotted woodpecker, pheasant (cock) circling beneath,

pecking up the peanut crumbs from the upper table.

Mallards sliding under the hedges on the far side of the

moat." [Roger Deakin, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm]